Plano municipal de gestão integrada de resíduos sólidos (PMGIRS): atores, processos, instituições, representações e resultados

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand the implementation dynamics of Plano Municipal de Gestão Integrada de Resíduos Sólidos (PMGIRS) in Natal/RN. This study considers PMGIRS implementation has various public and private actors and, consequently, representations, institutions, processes and results, with an interdependency in this process. It is a qualitative research based on a case of study. This study takes public policies pentagon created by Lascoumes e Le Galès (2012). To collect data, it adopts literature, documental and field research. This research uses semi-structured interview with workers of the public agencies responsible for implementing PMGIRS / Natal actions; by the implementation of municipal environmental policies and environmental education; with representatives garbage pickers’ cooperative, Institution of Higher Education, Retail Supermarket and Shopping Center representatives that are solid garbage producers. This research points that to PMGIRS/Natal execution it was necessary re-adaptation in the institutional process by the responsible body to the plan this implementation and in the conflicts identification between public and private actors, with little advances referring to the results linked to the environmental education. It has identified that a group of big producers interviewed knows nothing about PNRS, as well as about legal instruments in the city. Principle of responsibility shared is a great plan stimulation; however, it is not present in the private sector, reverse logistic actions. Garbage pickers cooperatives have a limited operational structure, this makes difficult enlargement of an action of selective collect service. To the social inclusion of garbage pickers, this is a significate step. However, a failed in the mobilization between public power and cooperatives makes service worse. This thesis points a diversity of involved actors in the PMGIRS/Natal execution that results in distinct and fragmented interactions about ideas, institutions, representations and processes, with a dynamic marked by institutional-administrative non-effectiveness (lack of infrastructure, not obeying rules and norms, deficient monitoring) and limited bottlenecks in the effort to solve proposed actions, this can damage implementation.