90% of homes have garbage collection in Brazil; worst index is in Maranhão

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Data from the 2022 Census showed that the state was the one that expanded garbage collection the most between 2010 and 2022, but remains in last place in the service. Garbage is dumped at the construction site on Avenida Kennedy in São Luís Douglas Pinto/TV Mirante 90% of homes in Brazil have direct or indirect garbage collection, according to the 2022 Census, from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The data indicates an increase of 5.1% in relation to the 2010 Census. Share this news on WhatsApp Share this news on Telegram NOTE: IBGE considers direct collection to be that which is carried out at home. The indirect one is when the garbage is deposited by the resident in a cleaning service dumpster. Collection in the country reached 90.9% in 2022, compared to 85.8% in 2010. The ranking is led by São Paulo, a state in which collection went from 98.2% to 99% in the same period. Maranhão was the state that expanded garbage collection the most in the last decade, going from 53.5% to 69.8%. Despite progress, the state still has the worst national coverage ratio for solid waste collection. Measures have had an effect, but there is still a long way to go The construction of a waste treatment plant and the completion of a waste management plan in the last 10 years may have contributed to the improvement of garbage collection indicators in Maranhão, especially in the Metropolitan Region of São Luís. In 2014, the Titara Waste Treatment Center, which is located in the town of Buenos Aires, in the Municipality of Rosário (75 km from São Luís) began operating. There is a sanitary landfill on site, considered the appropriate environment for sending solid waste. There, gases and leachate from the garbage are drained. Then, the leachate goes to an effluent treatment plant (ETE), where the material is treated until it is considered final effluent without polluting characteristics. The landfill receives waste from the cities of Rosário, Axixá and Morros, from the entire Greater São Luís (Paço do Lumiar, Raposa, São José de Ribamar and São Luís), and from companies in segments such as, for example, energy generation , mining, food, services, oil exploration and civil construction. Titara Waste Treatment Plant Legislative Assembly of Maranhão (Alema) In 2019, the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan for the Greater São Luís Metropolitan Region (PGIRS/RMGSL) was completed. In practice, it is a document that aims to meet the requirements of the Basic Sanitation Legal Framework and eliminate the use of landfills. The plan also exempts municipalities from preparing individual municipal plans, in addition to serving as a guideline in waste management planning for the next 20 years in 13 municipalities around the capital. One of the challenges of garbage collection in the state is to universalize the construction of landfills and support collection in all municipalities in Maranhão, especially in the poorest and least populated regions. Inequality persists Despite the increase in collection in the country, the data indicate a significant difference between regions of Brazil. In the North Region, the proportion of the population served by household waste collection in 2022 was 78.5%, while in the Southeast Region, which has the highest coverage, the percentage was 96.9%. The South region is the second with the highest proportion of the population served, with 95.3%, followed by the Central-West, with 93.1% and the Northeast, with 82.4%. Inequalities are more evident in cities with a smaller population, which have less access to garbage collection. In cities with less than 5 thousand inhabitants, 78.9% of households had garbage collection. In cities with a population of more than 500 thousand inhabitants, the proportion of garbage collection reaches 98.9%. Ranking of states with the highest garbage collection coverage Other data from the 2022 Census Information from the 2022 Census began to be released in June 2023. Since then, it has been possible to know that: Brazil has 203 million inhabitants, a smaller number than it was estimated by initial projections; The country continues to become increasingly feminine and older. The median age of a Brazilian went from 29 years old (in 2010) to 35 years old (in 2022). This means that half of the population is under 35 years old, and the other half is older than that. There are around 104.5 million women, 51.5% of all Brazilians; 1.3 million people who identify as quilombolas (0.65% of the total) – it was the first time in history that the Census included questions in its questionnaires to identify this group; The number of indigenous people grew 89%, to 1.7 million, in relation to the 2010 Census. This can be explained by the change in mapping and research methodology for indigenous peoples, which allowed more people to be identified; For the first time, Brazilians declared themselves more brown than white, and the black population grew. Also for the first time, the institute mapped all the geographic coordinates and types of buildings that make up the country’s 111 million addresses, and found that Brazil has more religious temples than hospitals and schools combined. After 50 years, the term favela was used again in the Census.

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