Amorim, Aldo Siervo de (2016) Critical analysis of the economic and environmental feasibility of the civil construction waste recycling process at the municipal level. PhD thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of the economic and environmental viability of Civil Construction Waste recycling process in a municipality. It was used as a basis the municipality of Guarulhos, where a survey of quantities of construction waste generated, its management and the process of recycling and reuse of recycled aggregates produced was made. The municipality of Guarulhos implemented the first Voluntary Delivery Point (PEV) of waste in 2003 and uninterruptedly, is increasing the availability of these points population, having 17 points in 2014. Initially planned to only receive waste from construction, become points where the population intended number of inorganic solid waste. The public corporation responsible for works in the city, PROGUARU, owned a Plant Construction Waste Recycling (URE) producing recycled aggregates for use in maintenance and paving, as well as providing material for use in Precast Factory, closing a funding cycle, processing and reuse of Construction Waste in the city. Were developed two models that include the economic calculation of the Civil Construction Waste recycling process of a municipality, the savings from the reduction of irregular disposal and replacement of natural aggregates by recycled aggregates produced by PROGUARU. In the period 2003-2014, the Voluntary Delivery Points received 296.210,11 . 10³ kg of total waste, and sent 214,910, 57 . 10³ kg Civil Construction Waste for URE. The annual profit of the system including the cost of land (PEV and URE) was R $ 3.50 per capita, and despising the value of land was R $ 5.02 per capita. The research confirms the economic viability of recycling, in addition to environmental benefits by decreasing the irregular disposal and saving natural resources.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Pires, Maria Aparecida Faustino |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | civil construction; environmental management; waste recycling |
| Index terms: | construction waste recycling, natural resource, savings, aggregate, recycling, funding, construction waste, environmental management, land, paving, profit, survey, population, replacement, municipality, recycled aggregate |
| Subjects: | administrative law, data collection methods, real estate economics, sustainability assessment, health safety and environment, demography, transportation engineering, waste management, materials science, environmental resource management, economic analysis |
| Topics: | Sustainability, Engineering Principles, Health and Safety, Legal Issues, Research Practice, Business Strategy, Urban Studies |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCE |
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