Panorama do atual sistema de gestão da limpeza urbana em Salvador - BA

Abstract

This work whose objective was to evaluate the panorama of the current urban cleaning management system in Salvador in the state of Bahia. The primary data collection for the work was through interviews, questionnaires and photographic records carried out from May to July 2018. With the data obtained it was possible to characterize Limpurb, which has a legal nature of a public company of private law, was created by Municipal Law No. 3,034 of May 25, 1979 and acts in the urban cleaning of the city in mixed regime with joint participation of several entities and analyze its role for the urban cleaning of the municipality. In 2017 the estimated population was 2,953,986 inhabitants (hab), with 75,971.60 tons of solid household waste per month. Thus, the city has a generation per capita of approximately 0.857kg and with these data it is possible to estimate the population evolution and the evolution in the generation of the residues of the next ten years. Of the 98 Soteropolitans who participated in the survey, 54.1% said they were not responsible for the final destination of the waste and 72.4% did not know the voluntary delivery points - ENP. Having an overview of the urban cleaning in Salvador - Bahia allowed to aggregate relevant information about the perception of waste by the soteropolitanos and contributed with a general analysis about the deficiencies of the urban cleaning system of the municipality.