Factors that Cause Buildings to Not Support the Selective Collect in the Neighborhood Ponta Verde: Partial Results

Jacqueline Praxedes de Almeida, Deise Sâmara da Silva, and Rayanne Santos de Almeida Mendonça

Institute of Geography, Development and Environment, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil

Abstract: In urban centers, the generation of solid waste and its inadequate disposal has become a problem that involves several aspects of society. In Maceió, capital of Alagoas/Brazil, there is no official permanent Environmental Education program that promotes the reduction of solid waste generation. In this sense, the expansion of the selective collection becomes urgent and necessary in Maceió. COOPVILA is today responsible for selective collection in the Ponta Verde neighborhood. This neighborhood has the highest family income (R $ 9,026.87) among the neighborhoods along the seafront of the city and the second largest family income in Maceió. It also presents, among the neighborhoods serviced by COOPVILA, the greater density of multifamily buildings, being this type of dwelling the focus of the selective collection of said cooperative. The methodology used is action research, using as an instrument of information acquisition the questionnaire, also including the dissemination of the work of selective collection made by COOPVILA and the awareness of those involved in relation to participatory action on environmental conservation. The first results showed that the majority of those surveyed did not know the final destination of the waste produced by them, nor did they participate in any action aimed at performing a selective collection.

Key words: environmental education, cooperativism, selective collect