Política de resíduos sólidos urbanos: o caso das cidades fronteiriças de Ponta Porã (Brasil) e Pedro Juan Caballero (Paraguai)

Abstract

At the present time, the issue of solid waste management has become a challenge in the international scenario, obtaining the recognition that the lack of this entails a series of socioenvironmental consequences and therefore, it lacks initiatives of public policies and commitment of the most varied social and especially the State. History has shown that man has always acted in relation to his environment in order to satisfy his needs, being today they are extremely larger than in the past, demanding more reparatory and preventive actions by the State, such as the one that exposes the question of consumerism. By directing the theme to a frontier area, other norms besides national, state / departmental and municipal are on the screen, those of an international character. The main objective was to bring the current situation of urban solid waste from the frontier municipalities of Ponta Porã (BR) and Pedro Juan Caballero (PY). With a qualitative approach and with the use of primary and secondary data, it can be noted that in both municipalities there are irregularities in the way in which the subject has been worked, when compared to the political guidelines of their respective territories. Ranging from weaknesses in the collection of household waste, fragility to selective collection with social inclusion, reverse logistics and the present institutional and technical framework, as in the absence of actions to the non-generation, reduction, recycling, treatment or use of other mechanisms present in policies environmental issues and solid waste policy, such as the raising of financial resources, the implementation of a database and a landfill, among others. The perspectives of the paraguayan municipality are smaller in comparison to those of the brazilian municipality, which established a joint management with two nearby brazilian municipalities, but there is still opportunity for a joint action between the two peoples to move forward in this thematic area. In short, the lack of political priority to the theme makes the challenges are being added and launched for your solution in the future.