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Challenges and Proposals to Improve Waste Management in the Rocinha Favela

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Environmental Performance and Social Inclusion in Informal Settlements

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Abstract

Solid waste management (SWM) is recognized worldwide as an important issue to deal with in pursuing liveability. In Rocinha, services coverage is lacking and unsatisfying in many sectors, including SWM, influenced by many challenges: high population density, lack of space and narrow streets, residents struggling with low incomes. In this part of the research, we investigate the reasons for this inadequacy. Waste flows have been analysed, the SWM system in Rocinha described, and an assessment on stakeholders and initiatives done. These steps help in defining properly the context, which gave us the tools to elaborate and suggest a new proposal for waste management, providing also a strategy for its implementation.

Appropriate does not always mean simple, low-technology or labour-intensive, but does it mean that all relevant factors of a particular situation are considered when decision are made.

UN-HABITAT (2010)

Talvez estejamos sendo um pouco radicais, mas é importante que o leitor entenda que existem ações mais importantes na reurbanização de favelas do que a mudança espacial ou a implementação de um grande equipamento. As obras e os grandes equipamentos como os imagéticos teleféricos podem dar mídia, porém, cabe perguntar se com o mesmo recurso não se poderia fazer muito mais pela vida dos moradores da favela.

Silva (2015).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Domestic waste daily amount (152 t/d) was calculated as the sum of Household waste and other kind of waste, on the assumption of a population of 104,644 inhabitants and a production of 1 kg/d/in. of Household waste and 0.5 kg/d/person of other waste (EMOP 2012).

  2. 2.

    Política Estadual de Resíduos Sólidos (Lei Estadual no. 4.191, de 30.09.2003).

  3. 3.

    Plano Diretor de Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos da Região Metropolitana do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Decreto Estadual no 41.122, de 09.01.2008).

  4. 4.

    Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos (Lei Federal no. 12.305, de 02.08.2010; Decreto Federal no. 7.404, de 23.12.2010).

  5. 5.

    Gestão Integrada de Resíduos Sólidos no âmbito do Município do Rio de Janeiro. (Lei Municipal no. 4.969, de 03.12.2008).

  6. 6.

    Programa de Ampliação da Coleta Seletiva 2010 (Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro—BNDES, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social).

  7. 7.

    Contract 10.2.2030.1 between the Municipality (SESCOOP/RJ—Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem do Cooperativismo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro) and OCB/RJ—Federação e Organização das Cooperativas Brasileiras do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

  8. 8.

    http://www.rio.rj.gov.br/web/smu/exibeconteudo?id=4368435.

  9. 9.

    Inciso VII, artigo 3o, Decreto Municipal 27.078/2006.

  10. 10.

    Programa de Ampliação da Coleta Seletiva (2010) refers to six sorting centres, three located at Centro, Bangu and Campo Grande (30 t/d, 300 scavengers), three located at Penha, Irajá and Jacarepaguá (20 t/d, 200 scavengers).

  11. 11.

    O Globo, "Com o fim do 'Gari Comunitário', prefeitura do Rio contratará 1.700 pessoas para limpar favelas", Magalhães L.E., 19/04/2010 (https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/com-fim-do-gari-comunitario-prefeitura-do-rio-contratara-1700-pessoas-para-limpar-favelas-3020764).

  12. 12.

    Jornal do Brasil, “Após ordem, Comlurb assina acordo para substituir garis comunitários”, 11/05/2010 (http://www.jb.com.br/rio/noticias/2010/05/11/apos-ordem-comlurb-assina-acordo-para-substituir-garis-comunitarios/).

  13. 13.

    Rio On Watch, “I Was Fired Because I Dared to Leave the Slave Quarters”, Célio Gari, 21/05/2015 (http://www.rioonwatch.org/?p=22069).

  14. 14.

    According to EMOP (2012), the percentage of 77% of waste properly collected comes from the Censo Demografico (IBGE 2017), but analysis on disaggregated data produced another result (the above mentioned 98%).

  15. 15.

    https://leismunicipais.com.br/a1/rj/r/rio-de-janeiro/decreto/2009/3080/30794/decreto-n-30794-2009-altera-a-estrutura-organizacional-da-empresa-municipal-de-limpeza-urbana-comlurb.

  16. 16.

    Dr. Guéladio Cissé, CeTAmb Lab, 21 December 2016.

  17. 17.

    A discussion on the phenomenon of “criminalization of poverty” in the context of Rocinha is made by Ceppi (2017).

  18. 18.

    http://www.rj.gov.br/web/imprensa/exibeconteudo?article-id=1050611.

  19. 19.

    RePlast–—https://www.byfusion.com/.

  20. 20.

    Process KONLIX: https://ecomaquinas.com.br/the-compressed-earth-block/#comresiduosorganicos.

  21. 21.

    “Production of bricks from waste materials—A review”, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061813004418, “Development of sustainable construction material using industrial and agricultural solid waste: A review of waste-create bricks”, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061811001784.

  22. 22.

    https://preciousplastic.com/.

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Villa, F., Grosso, M. (2020). Challenges and Proposals to Improve Waste Management in the Rocinha Favela. In: Masera, G., Tadi, M. (eds) Environmental Performance and Social Inclusion in Informal Settlements. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44352-8_6

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