Aspectos demográficos associados a geração de resíduos sólidos domiciliares no município de Belo Horizonte, 2002

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Harley Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Resíduos sólidos; Belo Horizonte; População; Belo Horizonte (MG) Limpeza urbana; Resíduos sólidos Aspectos demográficos Belo Horizonte (MG); Gestão ambiental Aspectos demográficos Belo Horizonte (MG)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/AMSA-8A7PM6

This thesis investigates the relationship between population factors and the solid waste household production in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The main objective is to investigate whether socioeconomic differences, such as income and education, as well as the demographic differences, such as household composition and household age structure, are important to define patterns of solid waste generation among the regions of a specific municipality. The data about waste production, which are available in cartographic data digital system, are available from the Urban Cleaning Office SLU for the Portuguese acronym , and the demographic data is from the Brazilian Statistical Bureau IBGE for the Portuguese acronym. This last is also available in a geographical weighting digital system, which allows merging both data sources. A report of waste characterization from SLU (2004) was used to assess the analysis of waste composition; nevertheless, this thesis uses the Administrative Regions of the municipality as an intra-urban unit of analysis. Statistical techniques of main components methods and clusters analysis were used to investigate the relationship between population factors and the solid waste household production.The thesis indicates that the concentration of one-person households (single households), population and presence of elderly household head 60 years or more and high mean age which characterizes an urban-contemporary demographic profile are the main demographic factors associated with higher per capita waste generation. These factors are also highly associated with high income and schooling. This profile is also associated with type of waste production - organic of recyclable -, being this profile more likely to be associated with intensive production of recyclable material. The consumption pattern seems to be the core of the association between demographic characteristics and the composition of the waste production.As long as this urban-contemporary profile is widespread, and simultaneously, concentrated in some specific areas of the municipality, its market oriented consumption, even of industrialized food, seems to explain the relative increase of production recyclable waste.