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I. C. Ribeiro et al.
Many public and private institutions are great generators of solid organic waste,
such as food waste and used coffee grounds, and it is necessary to adopt sustainable
practices for its management. The increase in the organic solid waste generation and
especially used coffee grounds in higher education institutions as reported in this
study, seems to be a tendency to be maintained or even expanded. The treatment of
these organics internally in its place of generation emerges as an efficient tool for
the solid waste decentralized management.
The used coffee grounds due to their intrinsic characteristics seem to require their
own methodology to be efficiently used by the composting technique. International
literature has been focusing on this subject, due to the fact that themes such as waste,
sustainability, composting and anaerobic digestion are being focused worldwide. In
this sense, proposals that seek to evaluate the production of used coffee grounds, the
treatments and mixtures of materials that enable the use of this waste in recycling
processes, as well as to demonstrate microorganisms capable of metabolizing this
material become important in the context of sustainability in institutional settings.
Based on the experience reported, the research group intends to maintain and to
expand the selective collection activities for constant operation of the composting
bins with greater involvement and participation of students and staff members in the
institution. The improvement of the infrastructure of the Labiotecs already approved
is being developed and it is fundamental for the continuity of the project, since the
institution management support is crucial in all the stages of the process. The efforts of
the researchers also move in this direction in order to facilitate external partnerships
in order to subsidize new research and analysis, allowing the acquisition of new
equipment, the expansion of the research team, new scholarships for researchers, as
well as to increase the number of actions in the institutional community and other
sectors of society.
References
ABIC (2015) Associação Brasileira da Indústria do Café. Indicadores da indústria de café no Brasil
– 2015. Rio de Janeiro, 2016. Disponível em: http://www.abic.com.br/publique/cgi/cgilua.exe/
sys/start.htm?sid=61#5103. Último acesso 22 Dec 2017
ABRELPE (2016) Associação Brasileira de Empresas de Limpeza Pública e Resíduos Especiais.
“Panorama dos Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil. 2015”. São Paulo: ABRELPE, p 120
Adi AJ, Noor ZM (2009) Waste recycling: utilization of coffee grounds and kitchen waste in
vermicomposting. Bioresour Technol 100(2):1027–1030
Bizzo AW (2003) “Situação da disposição de resíduos industriais e domésticos na Região Metropolitana de Campinas”. In: Seminário internacional de avaliação de terrenos e uso sustentável de
recursos, 2003, Campinas.Anais. Campinas: UNICAMP
Bravo J, Monenten C, Juaniz I, Pena MP, Concepción C (2013) Influence of extraction process on
antioxidant capacity of spent coffee. Food Res Int 50:610–616
Brazil (2010) Lei n. 12.305, de 2 de agosto de 2010. Institui a Política Nacional de
Resíduos Sólidos”; altera a Lei nº 9.605, de 12 de fevereiro de 1998; e dá outras
providências. “Diário Oficial da União”, Brasília, n. 147, 03. ago. 2010, Seção 1, pp
I. C. Ribeiro et al.
Many public and private institutions are great generators of solid organic waste,
such as food waste and used coffee grounds, and it is necessary to adopt sustainable
practices for its management. The increase in the organic solid waste generation and
especially used coffee grounds in higher education institutions as reported in this
study, seems to be a tendency to be maintained or even expanded. The treatment of
these organics internally in its place of generation emerges as an efficient tool for
the solid waste decentralized management.
The used coffee grounds due to their intrinsic characteristics seem to require their
own methodology to be efficiently used by the composting technique. International
literature has been focusing on this subject, due to the fact that themes such as waste,
sustainability, composting and anaerobic digestion are being focused worldwide. In
this sense, proposals that seek to evaluate the production of used coffee grounds, the
treatments and mixtures of materials that enable the use of this waste in recycling
processes, as well as to demonstrate microorganisms capable of metabolizing this
material become important in the context of sustainability in institutional settings.
Based on the experience reported, the research group intends to maintain and to
expand the selective collection activities for constant operation of the composting
bins with greater involvement and participation of students and staff members in the
institution. The improvement of the infrastructure of the Labiotecs already approved
is being developed and it is fundamental for the continuity of the project, since the
institution management support is crucial in all the stages of the process. The efforts of
the researchers also move in this direction in order to facilitate external partnerships
in order to subsidize new research and analysis, allowing the acquisition of new
equipment, the expansion of the research team, new scholarships for researchers, as
well as to increase the number of actions in the institutional community and other
sectors of society.
References
ABIC (2015) Associação Brasileira da Indústria do Café. Indicadores da indústria de café no Brasil
– 2015. Rio de Janeiro, 2016. Disponível em: http://www.abic.com.br/publique/cgi/cgilua.exe/
sys/start.htm?sid=61#5103. Último acesso 22 Dec 2017
ABRELPE (2016) Associação Brasileira de Empresas de Limpeza Pública e Resíduos Especiais.
“Panorama dos Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil. 2015”. São Paulo: ABRELPE, p 120
Adi AJ, Noor ZM (2009) Waste recycling: utilization of coffee grounds and kitchen waste in
vermicomposting. Bioresour Technol 100(2):1027–1030
Bizzo AW (2003) “Situação da disposição de resíduos industriais e domésticos na Região Metropolitana de Campinas”. In: Seminário internacional de avaliação de terrenos e uso sustentável de
recursos, 2003, Campinas.Anais. Campinas: UNICAMP
Bravo J, Monenten C, Juaniz I, Pena MP, Concepción C (2013) Influence of extraction process on
antioxidant capacity of spent coffee. Food Res Int 50:610–616
Brazil (2010) Lei n. 12.305, de 2 de agosto de 2010. Institui a Política Nacional de
Resíduos Sólidos”; altera a Lei nº 9.605, de 12 de fevereiro de 1998; e dá outras
providências. “Diário Oficial da União”, Brasília, n. 147, 03. ago. 2010, Seção 1, pp