Potencialidades e estratégias sustentáveis para o aproveitamento de rejeitos de coco (cocus nucifera L.)

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Bitencourt, Daniela Venceslau
• Orientador(a): Pedrotti, Alceu
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Casca de coco; Reaproveitamento; Viabilidade sócio-econômico-ambiental
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Coconut shell; Reuse; Social-economic-environmental viability
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::OUTROS
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4179

The coconut water consumption in Brazil is increasing and significant. The great demanding is mainly supplied by the extraction of in natura water. The trouble, however, is that the coconut water consumption s increase is causing an environmental problem, since the shells, byproduct of coconut water industrialization and use, are taken to landfills and other areas considered inadequate, contributing to the increase of urban solid residue problems, mostly because this is a material of difficult decomposition, taking around eight years to complete. Therefore, the use of coconut shell as raw material to obtain products has great importance in the struggle for the minimization of solid residue produced in the different industrial and commercial processes of coconut. In this perspective, it is proposed to analyze sustainable strategies for the coconut shells use, aiming at the environmental impacts reduction and the verification of kind and level of economic and social benefits in Sergipe and Northeast conditions. Thus, this research validates the hypothesis that the coconut residue use through an agroindustrial chain directed to the generation of new products contributes to the local development as well as establishes balance between the environmental preservation and the human social and economic needs. Methodologically, this research started from exploratory and descriptive study, supported by documental and bibliographical examination as well as a field research which really provided it with the coconut dynamics and the generation of organic residue originated from its exploration in the state of Sergipe context. The sample took into account producers, distributors and consumers in order to diversify the perspective around the studied phenomenon. Therefore, different resources of data collection were used: interviews with diary entries and questionnaires. The analysis was divided into axes which allowed outline the coconut production board and its destination as well as the perception of the suppliers in relation to the coconut shell problem and its relation with the environmental matter, besides analyzing the production environmental impacts not only towards the garbage amount in Aracaju, but also the potential of coconut shell reuse in the fiber and powder manufacturing. The analysis revealed that the use of coconut shell as raw material is a viable alternative both in the environmental, social and economic perspective. It also showed that it is possible to materialize actions that promote the environmental preservation added to the capacity of creating jobs and income, strengthening the associateship and mechanisms for the individual to exercise and get full advantage of citizenship, in a proposal able to provide him with balance between the environment and development.