O TRIPE DA SUSTENTABILIDADE APLICADO A UMA CENTRAL DE TRIAGEM DE RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS:

ESTUDO DE CASO DE SANTA TEREZINHA DE ITAIPU

Abstract

Due to the great advance of the world economy, it is necessary to understand the relationship between development and sustainability, with this the environmental issue must be treated as an essential issue in society. Thus, the objective of the present work was to evaluate the degree of sustainability of the solid waste sorting center in the city of Santa Terezinha de Itaipu - PR, regarding the dimensions related to the sustainability tripod. The Sustainability Tripod (Triple Bottom Line) encompasses the combination of elements from the environmental, economic and social dimensions that are used, as instruments to assess the sustainable development of a location. Based on that, five indicators were selected for each dimension and their numerical scales, as well as the descriptors for evaluating these indicators and the degree of measurement. According to the score of the results obtained, the degree of sustainability is rated from 1 to 5, being critical, bad, average, good and excellent, respectively. In view of this, the dimensions had results: 4.0 (Good); 3.4 (Median) and 5.0 (Excellent) for environmental, economic and social, respectively, with regard to performance on the issue of sustainability. In this way, the degree of sustainability of the sorting center obtained by the team was equal to 4.1, which gives the organization, according to the proposed scale, a “good” grade and an 82% sustainability index for the center.