O uso de resíduos urbanos para obtenção de energia em Petrolina-PE

Abstract

The urban solid waste generation in a community is close to its development level. The waste collect and the right disposure are usually expensive to the municipality. Consequences of not satisfactory management are bad results in public health, for the illnesses vectors spread, social problems garbage catchers, environmental troubles with methane generation, the visual pollution and water pollution by percolate. Some energy used to produce the urban solid wastes can be recovered, by this way, reduces the costs of waste management and negative impacts too This paper tries to show the historic of the urban waste generation and disposure Petrolina-PE city, what its social and environmental effects. It analyzes trough a quality classification of the wastes what the recovering potential energy.