PORT WASTE MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN RIO DE JANEIRO

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to elaborate a diagnosis of the port area and the socioenvironmental management of the Port of Rio de Janeiro, beyond of delineate their profile and proposes actions to improve the management of solid waste. To attainment the goals we conducted a literature review and interviews with the environmental manager of the Port of Rio de Janeiro and researchers with the International Virtual Institute of Global Change – IVIG from COPPE/UFRJ. The study has identified ineffective waste management of the Port of Rio de Janeiro beyond generate unnecessary costs with emergency actions and attracts harmful synanthropic fauna: cockroaches, scorpions and rodents. This is because environmental management, among other factors, is presented by the inadequate supervision inefficient, poor technology, inadequate infrastructure, environmental education and sprayed lack of integration between the actors involved. Thus, integration between government, private sector, third sector and consumers would become a sustainable, effective and viable waste management port.