O PROBLEMA DO LIXO GERADO PELAS EMBALAGENS DE PIZZA NA CIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Abstract

São Paulo generates an average of 18 thousand tons of garbage daily between common trash (household waste), public or special, and the household waste represents 12 thousand tons / day.

The website of the City of São Paulo informs that the collection works are carried out by the concessionaires Ecourbis and Loga, which daily cover an area of ​​1,500 km ² where 11 million people are benefited and where more than three thousand people work in the collection of these residues with 500 Trucks and other specialized vehicles for collecting health waste (Data collected on the website of the City of São Paulo www.capital.sp.gov.br in October and November of 2016 and updated in January of 2017).

With these impressive numbers we must analyze where all this material is going, what destiny is given to it and if this is really the best destination to be given to this garbage.

This study aims to bring to light the problem of the volume of garbage in the city of São Paulo by cutting the category of solid waste, raising the amount of garbage generated specifically by pizza packaging (in São Paulo alone 570 thousand pizzas are consumed per day. Correspond to 57% of the total volume of the country), analyzing the final destination for these packages, how and where they are discarded and still proposing a reflection of which would be the best destination for them in order to minimize the environmental impact they cause.

So, an exploratory research was carried out through a bibliographical survey and secondary data extracted from the annals of the City of São Paulo and the PGIRS - Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan of the City of São Paulo.

Aware of a volume of rubbish that is so impressive and damaging to the city that it grows exponentially, this study proposes not a change in the consumption of pizza, a food so intrinsic to the culture of São Paulo and Brazil, but a new way of packing it and which can be reused and recycled, significantly reducing the impact on nature.