Description
The Zero Dumps Program is an initiative of the Ministry of the Environment that aims to comply with the federal guideline, with the objective of eliminating existing dumps and supporting municipalities for more appropriate solutions for the final disposal of solid waste. Through concrete actions, it is intended to improve the environmental quality of cities and, as a consequence, the quality of life of the population.
The Program is part of the Brazilian Agenda for Urban Environmental Quality, in its second phase, which focuses on the theme of Urban Solid Waste and is structured in four parts. In its first section, it presents a synthesis of the Diagnosis of the dump problem in Brazil.
"Zero Dumps” as the goal of eradicating dumps in the Brazilian territory as determined by the Brazilian Solid Waste Policy, minimizing the environmental impacts resulting from the pressures that urban solid waste exerts on natural resources and making the necessary changes for the environmentally adequate disposal of solid waste.
The program provides for the implementation of actions to improve MSW management with the following perspectives: closure of dumps and controlled landfills; expansion of selective collection and recycling of dry and organic waste; recovery of contaminated areas; work with the private sector to implement and expand reverse logistics systems; and use of the energy potential of solid waste. In summary, the Zero Dumps Program comprises three axes, now added to a fourth axis from the publication of Planares, aimed at its continuous improvement, following a PDCA (Plan - Do - Check - and Act) approach:
• Axis of action 1 - Improvement of MSW management
• Axis of action 2 - Strengthening municipal management
• Axis of action 3 - Computerization and database
• Axis of action 4 - Strengthening Planares as a guiding document for public policies in the sector
OBJECTIVES
The strategic objectives of the Program are to:
- Promote non-generation and reduction of waste at the generating source in order to contribute to efficient management and
effective environmental and economic resources;
- Expand the environmentally appropriate final disposal of municipal solid waste;
- Enhance the generation of energy from solid waste and tailings;
- Strengthen municipal management and inter-municipal public consortia;
- Systematize information on solid waste management.
Criteria 10/11
- ACCESSIBILITY
- ALIGNMENT WITH SDG 1,3,4,6 AND/OR 11
- RACE AND GENDER ISSUES
- ATTENTION TO CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
- LOW COST
- SOCIAL DIFFUSION
- ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY
- ADHERENCE AND CONTINUITY AT LOCAL LEVEL
- WASH INITIATIVE
- CLIMATE RESILIENCE
- SUSTAINABILITY
All actions involve the MMA, as coordinator of the PNRS, coordinated with other institutions, especially municipalities (including associations such as ANAMMA, CNM and FNP), consortia (Brazilian Network of Public Consortia), states (ABEMA), other federal agencies (MDR, MME, ANEEL, FUNASA, PPI), private sector associations (such as ABRELPE, ABETRE, ABIOGÁS, ABCP and AESAS) and environmental entities working on the subject (such as LIMPA BRASIL, among others).
City halls
Intermunicipal solid waste management consortia
General population
In 2021:
- 645 dumps have been closed (represents a 20% drop in irregular
waste disposal areas compared to January 2019)
-57 municipalities obtained equipment and machinery, in the amount of R$ 41.7 million to improve solid waste management;
- 11 municipalities were contemplated with the Rondônia Zero Dumps Project with the elimination of the State's dumps, in the amount of R$ 12 million;
- 40 municipalities received deliveries made through parliamentary amendments of the year
2020, which total R$ 15.7 million.
Until the dumps are closed.
Projetos e ações
Os projetos e ações/subações previstos no âmbito do Programa Lixão Zero são:
1 - Implementar projetos de encerramento de lixões e aterros controlados.
2 - Implementar projetos de coleta seletiva das frações seca e úmida, de forma a aumentar o índice de reciclagem.
3 - Implementar projetos de reciclagem da fração seca de RSU.
4 - Implementar projetos de compostagem e digestão anaeróbia de resíduos orgânicos.
5 - Estimar e mapear o potencial energético dos RSU em cenário nacional e atuar para a viabilização de projetos
nessa temática.
6 - Adequar o ambiente regulatório para geração de energia a partir de resíduos sólidos.
7 - Fomentar projetos de recuperação ambiental de áreas contaminadas por resíduos sólidos e rejeitos.
8 - Promover assistência técnica para municípios e consórcios realizarem o encerramento de lixões e aterros
controlados.
9 - Apoiar municípios na constituição e operacionalização de consórcios públicos para gestão integrada de
resíduos.
10 - Promover capacitação de técnicos de estados, municípios e consórcios sobre estratégias para implementação
de coleta seletiva eficiente, com mecanismos legais, econômicos, técnicos e de comunicação.
11 - Promover programa de capacitação para municípios sobre gestão estratégica de resíduos e elaboração de
planos de gestão integrada.
12 - Estabelecer uma plataforma e estratégia permanentes de comunicação social para o consumo consciente,
segregação na origem e destinação correta dos resíduos.
13 - Desenvolver ambiente de negócios para a incorporação de resíduos como matéria-prima nos diferentes
processos produtivos e incentivar a geração e utilização de energia gerada a partir dos resíduos.
14 - Ampliar o preenchimento do SNIS e SINIR, de forma a atender integralmente aos dispositivos legais e obter
informações sobre a gestão de RSU nos estados e municípios.
For those municipalities that do not have landfills and dumps in their territory or in municipalities with which they border, therefore, it can be deduced that they travel significant distances to the disposal areas, the Zero Dumps Program indicates these regions as priority areas for investment in regional arrangements (public consortia) for sharing urban cleaning and solid waste management services that will maximize resources in economies of scale.
This program will be monitored by the SINIR+ (Brazilian Solid Waste Management Information System) platform. The data are provided by municipal secretariats to the MMA, manager of the monitoring system.
Brazilian Environmental Fund – FNMA (created by Law No. 7.797 of July 10, 1989):
2020 - transfer with the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Central East Region of the State of Rondônia for the execution of the Rondônia Zero Dumps project, in the amount of R$ 12,052,405. for the closure of 11 active dumps in Rondônia, serving as an example
to the Amazon and other regions of Brazil.
Link to access the PLANARES:
To access the FNMA, it is necessary to submit a project in response to public calls made to select the projects that will receive financing. These calls are published on the +Brasil platform (www.plataformamaisbrasil.gov.br) and on the portal of the Ministry of the Environment. The project must comply with the project manual, available on the MMA website: . The project will be evaluated and selected by the Fund's Deliberative Committee.
Images: Closing of the Campo Novo de Rondônia dump. Source: City Hall of Campo Novo de Rondônia, 2020