Pathways to Urban Sustainability: An Investigation of the Economic Potential of Untreated Household Solid Waste (HSW) in the City of São Paulo
| Autor: | Ivan Carlos Silva Lima, Tiago Nascimento Borges Slavov, Valmor Slomski, Vilma Geni Slomski |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Municipal solid waste
020209 energy Geography Planning and Development Public policy economic potential TJ807-830 02 engineering and technology Reverse logistics 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law gravimetry TD194-195 01 natural sciences Agricultural economics Renewable energy sources 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Business sector GE1-350 Carbon credit 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Waste sorting Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Resource depletion São Paulo Environmental sciences urban sustainability National Solid Waste Policy (NSWP) household solid waste Business Garbage Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 5249, p 5249 (2020) Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 13 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | The depletion of natural resources, the useful life of landfill sites, and the amount of garbage accumulating all challenge public policy to manage urban solid waste. We identified the economic potential for unused solid waste (HSW) in Sã o Paulo in 2018 to be USD 637,633,836.04 through descriptive quantitative research and documentary analysis in the collected data. This amount comes from five sources, with the majority coming from internalizing private cost credits (45.58%), followed by recycling (42.21%), carbon credits (5.46%), refuse-derived fuel (3.77%), and organic compounds (2.98%). This potential assumes the implantation of waste sorting plants that generate jobs, reduce public expenses, and provide environmental benefits such as forest protection, water, and minerals. The environmentally adequate final destination of HSW constitutes an economic and socio-environmental measure that enables the reverse logistics of the business sector and urban sustainability. Consequently, the economic potential of HSW, generated from its sorting and marketing, could provide a positive contribution with the mitigation of environmental impacts, in addition to income generation and social inclusion. |
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