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Disaster Debris: Fire in the Largo do Paissandú-SP, 2018

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Operations Management for Social Good (POMS 2018)

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This study presents the management of over 5000 tons of debris generated in the fire in Largo do Paissandú, São Paulo/Brazil, 2018. The process lasted 12 days and the debris was sent to a construction and demolition landfill without prior segregation, not abiding by the best practices in disaster waste recovery.

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The authors would like to thank the Civil Defense from the State of São Paulo and São Paulo City, the Secretaria Municipal de Assistência e Desenvolvimento Social, the Brazilian Red Cross—Filial de São Paulo and Autoridade Municipal de Limpeza Urbana for the information, and CAPES (Ministry of Education of Brazil) [Pro Alertas 88887.091746/2014-01], CNPQ (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) [456711/2014-7], CISLog-USP and the Vanzolini Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil.

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  1. Institute of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University (Unesp), São José Dos Campos, SP, Brazil

    Irineu de Brito Junior

  2. Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Larissa Ciccotti Freire & Tábata Rejane Bertazzo

  3. Programa de Mestrado em Engenharia de Sistemas Logísticos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Filipe Aécio Alves de Andrade Santos & Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

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  2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin (UNAL-Medellin), Medellín, Colombia

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    Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

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de Brito Junior, I., Freire, L.C., Bertazzo, T.R., de Andrade Santos, F.A.A., Yoshizaki, H.T.Y. (2020). Disaster Debris: Fire in the Largo do Paissandú-SP, 2018. In: Leiras, A., González-Calderón, C., de Brito Junior, I., Villa, S., Yoshizaki, H. (eds) Operations Management for Social Good. POMS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_36

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