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year, 43% higher than that of Germany, a country that uses the sun more than Brazil
as a source of energy.
Curitiba has community gardens that are more than 30 years old; the city has
848 participating families and 410 thousand square meters of vegetable gardens.
The Central District does not have communal gardens within its limits. It is worth
mentioning a project in the vicinity, the Reference Center on Urban Agriculture and
Creative Economy, to be installed in the area adjacent to the train yard, in the Pinhão
Valley area, occupying an area of 9860 m
2 (Curitiba 2017a). The greening of the
Central District could be made by including urban community gardens.
We refer to the mining and construction data to show that is possible to reduce
the consumption of these resources if the Central District buildings are renewed,
and that is necessary to insist on the possibility of using demolition debris as a raw
material in the construction industry. Approximately 77% of the mining deposits
in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba-MRC- are concentrated in only 20% of the
municipalities, mainly in Colombo, Campo Largo, Rio Branco do Sul, Almirante
Tamandaré, Cerro Azul and in the south of Curitiba. The annual mining production
in the MRC for 2004 represented gains of R$131 million, the exploitation of 21
million tons, of which 30% correspond to construction materials (Tribuna 2004) what
implies important transformations in the landscape of the mining municipalities.
Curitiba has several solid waste collection and disposal services (IFC-WB 2015).
The collection services are divided into services operated by the municipality, informal collection of recyclables and collection operated by the private sector. The Central District benefits from this system of collection and disposal of solid waste (there
the collection occurs daily at night), however there are no collection points for recyclable or compost in the district (Rota da Reciclagem 2018), and on the visits there
is evidence of the presence of many informal garbage collectors.
From the study, we can conclude that the active role of the Central District towards
sustainability can emerge on policies, programs and projects that prioritize construction and renovation with ecological efficiency, such as water management, that
includes the use of rainwater and the connection of new and existing buildings to
the installed sewage network or the construction of a neighborhood scale system
of water reuse along with rainwater treatment. Exploiting the solar energy potential
of Curitiba is an alternative to the weakness of the hydroelectric system in a climate change scenario. We suggest the implementation of urban gardens as part of a
greening program for local food production and composting of organic household
waste. Urban renewal, reuse of buildings and recycling of debris to diminish environmental and landscape impact of mining is desirable, as well as waste management
reinforcing recyclable routes and collection points.
A. M. Osorio Guzmán et al.
year, 43% higher than that of Germany, a country that uses the sun more than Brazil
as a source of energy.
Curitiba has community gardens that are more than 30 years old; the city has
848 participating families and 410 thousand square meters of vegetable gardens.
The Central District does not have communal gardens within its limits. It is worth
mentioning a project in the vicinity, the Reference Center on Urban Agriculture and
Creative Economy, to be installed in the area adjacent to the train yard, in the Pinhão
Valley area, occupying an area of 9860 m
2 (Curitiba 2017a). The greening of the
Central District could be made by including urban community gardens.
We refer to the mining and construction data to show that is possible to reduce
the consumption of these resources if the Central District buildings are renewed,
and that is necessary to insist on the possibility of using demolition debris as a raw
material in the construction industry. Approximately 77% of the mining deposits
in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba-MRC- are concentrated in only 20% of the
municipalities, mainly in Colombo, Campo Largo, Rio Branco do Sul, Almirante
Tamandaré, Cerro Azul and in the south of Curitiba. The annual mining production
in the MRC for 2004 represented gains of R$131 million, the exploitation of 21
million tons, of which 30% correspond to construction materials (Tribuna 2004) what
implies important transformations in the landscape of the mining municipalities.
Curitiba has several solid waste collection and disposal services (IFC-WB 2015).
The collection services are divided into services operated by the municipality, informal collection of recyclables and collection operated by the private sector. The Central District benefits from this system of collection and disposal of solid waste (there
the collection occurs daily at night), however there are no collection points for recyclable or compost in the district (Rota da Reciclagem 2018), and on the visits there
is evidence of the presence of many informal garbage collectors.
From the study, we can conclude that the active role of the Central District towards
sustainability can emerge on policies, programs and projects that prioritize construction and renovation with ecological efficiency, such as water management, that
includes the use of rainwater and the connection of new and existing buildings to
the installed sewage network or the construction of a neighborhood scale system
of water reuse along with rainwater treatment. Exploiting the solar energy potential
of Curitiba is an alternative to the weakness of the hydroelectric system in a climate change scenario. We suggest the implementation of urban gardens as part of a
greening program for local food production and composting of organic household
waste. Urban renewal, reuse of buildings and recycling of debris to diminish environmental and landscape impact of mining is desirable, as well as waste management
reinforcing recyclable routes and collection points.