In this paper we investigate the relationship between costs and number of bidders for U.K. local authorities’ refuse collection contracts. We find that a higher number of bids is associated with a lower cost of service. ...

With the current demand growing for material goods considered disposable, production has wildly increased, and the lifetime has been shortened, thus, creating a major challenge: proper management of solid waste. One of the ...

Environmental issues are being discussed today because of the need for change in relation to environmental degradation. Education in this sense should be emphasized as key to the transformation of societies, enabling the ...

The present work is the result of a daily analysis, where garbage has become a serious environmental problem, especially in the beaches that are places of free access. As a result, users often do not find throw the garbage, ...

The trash generated by people in their most complex business areas causes enormous difficulties on the way of disposal and final treatment. The main objective of the implementation of this project is to educate and sensitize ...

With the emergence of new technologies and products increasingly sophisticated, many materials are disposed of improperly, causing serious environmental problems, making it increasingly difficult to reconcile the development ...

The advent of the Industrial Revolution to modern society starts to experience new perspectives consumption and purchasing goods produced in increasingly larger scales and lower prices. Linked to this, the promotion of ...

The present course conclusion work aimed to make a diagnosis socioenvironmental of selective collection in the city of Campo Mourão – PR. Thus, visits were made and semi-structured interviews with the agents involved in ...

To know the reality of the waste produced by cities is fundamental to think the development, education and public politics articulated with other social segments. This work has as objectives to demonstrate the evolution ...

In this study the main goal was to investigate how features and how relationships formed to management and management of the selective collection of solid waste from the city of Alto Paraná program works, regarded this as ...