Educação ambiental na gestão dos resíduos sólidos no Município da Matola

Abstract

Urban sprawl has been accompanied by a series of problems such as increased solid waste that comes from physiological, domestic, agricultural and industrial activities, and other associated problems that harm not only the environment, but also the quality of life of the population (Santos, 2011). What has been observed currently is that nature takes longer and longer to decompose the waste due to the type and quantity of the same. Materials such as plastic, aluminium and glass which are not biodegradable, take many years for their natural degradation. their natural degradation. Tin cans - 100 years, plastic - 450 years, aluminium - 200 to 500 years and glass - 5000 years (Oliveira, Maulais & Delariva 2010). According to the same authors, due the amount and speed with which they are deposited, even organic materials such as paper exceeds the time nature needs to decompose them. Therefore the words of Rodrigues (2010) are noteworthy, when he shows that the greatest concern with solid waste is not only in terms of visual and olfactory pollution but rather all effects resulting from such uncontrolled waste, as is the case of diseases, decrease in quality of life and others. It should be emphasized that under the terms of Law No. 20/97 of 1st October (Mozambican Environment Law No. 20/97 of 1 October (Mozambican Environment Law) in its heading, citing article No. 90 of the Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique of 2004, shows that all individuals have the right to live in a healthy and ecologically balanced environment, and it is also their duty to defend it (Assembleia of the Republic, 2004). The same law also adds that the materialisation of this right necessarily involves the proper management of the environment and the preservation of natural resources, The management of solid waste produced daily is, without doubt, a great contribution to this great contribution to this materialisation. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)