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I. C. Ribeiro et al.
In September 2015, at the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, the seventeen
Sustainable Development Objectives were announced, under the name Agenda 2030
(UNPD 2015). These proposals were built between 2013 and 2015 and should guide
national policies and international cooperation activities over the next fifteen years,
succeeding and updating the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as well as
strengthening and contributing to the discussion on environmental issues.
These objectives seek to put into practice local actions as a focus on the social,
economic, and environmental pillars that are the foundation of a sustainable development. Since these objectives are focused on social health and human health issues,
and the recovery of organic solid wastes, through composting and biodigestion in
their place of generation make an important direct contribution to pests, vectors and
diseases control. Additionally there is a possibility of income generation through the
sale of the organic compound obtained.
In this sense, the activities reported and practiced in this research, besides the
techniques of composting and anaerobic digestion, fit in a clear way with some of
the sustainable development objectives, such as: promoting sustainable agriculture,
offering sanitation for all, making cities resilient, and sustainable human settlements,
ensuring sustainable production and consumption patterns, taking urgent action to
combat climate change and its impacts, and to protect, restore and promote the
sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. In addition, they also address the basic
sanitation aspect of decentralized solid waste management. Sustainable techniques
and practices are efficient tools capable of providing better environmental conditions
for the planet maintenance in various aspects.
4 Method
The activities developed between the years 2012 and 2017 are part of an experimental
research that has been carried out in partnership with the Faculty of Public Health of
the University of São Paulo (USP), which had the financial support of Foundation for
Support to Research and Innovation of Espírito Santo—FAPES. After the acquisition
of six composting equipments in 2013 the activities related to the composting technique began in an incipient method. From the year 2014 on, the selective collection
of organic solid waste started to take place in a structured system.
5 Study Area
Currently, Ifes, Vitória campus, has a Biotechnology and Sustainability Laboratory
(Labiotecs), Fig. 1. This space was created in the year 2015 due to several teaching,
research, and extension activities developed over the previous years with composting
and biotechnology topics. Among these actions, in 2012, a research group was formed
to study the management of Organic Solid Waste (OSW) on the institution. Among
I. C. Ribeiro et al.
In September 2015, at the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, the seventeen
Sustainable Development Objectives were announced, under the name Agenda 2030
(UNPD 2015). These proposals were built between 2013 and 2015 and should guide
national policies and international cooperation activities over the next fifteen years,
succeeding and updating the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as well as
strengthening and contributing to the discussion on environmental issues.
These objectives seek to put into practice local actions as a focus on the social,
economic, and environmental pillars that are the foundation of a sustainable development. Since these objectives are focused on social health and human health issues,
and the recovery of organic solid wastes, through composting and biodigestion in
their place of generation make an important direct contribution to pests, vectors and
diseases control. Additionally there is a possibility of income generation through the
sale of the organic compound obtained.
In this sense, the activities reported and practiced in this research, besides the
techniques of composting and anaerobic digestion, fit in a clear way with some of
the sustainable development objectives, such as: promoting sustainable agriculture,
offering sanitation for all, making cities resilient, and sustainable human settlements,
ensuring sustainable production and consumption patterns, taking urgent action to
combat climate change and its impacts, and to protect, restore and promote the
sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. In addition, they also address the basic
sanitation aspect of decentralized solid waste management. Sustainable techniques
and practices are efficient tools capable of providing better environmental conditions
for the planet maintenance in various aspects.
4 Method
The activities developed between the years 2012 and 2017 are part of an experimental
research that has been carried out in partnership with the Faculty of Public Health of
the University of São Paulo (USP), which had the financial support of Foundation for
Support to Research and Innovation of Espírito Santo—FAPES. After the acquisition
of six composting equipments in 2013 the activities related to the composting technique began in an incipient method. From the year 2014 on, the selective collection
of organic solid waste started to take place in a structured system.
5 Study Area
Currently, Ifes, Vitória campus, has a Biotechnology and Sustainability Laboratory
(Labiotecs), Fig. 1. This space was created in the year 2015 due to several teaching,
research, and extension activities developed over the previous years with composting
and biotechnology topics. Among these actions, in 2012, a research group was formed
to study the management of Organic Solid Waste (OSW) on the institution. Among