Grupos de interesses na gestão de resíduos sólidos domésticos no município de Santa Cruz do Sul/RS.

Abstract

The present thesis analyzed how different interest groups are built between public and private agents in the management of domestic solid waste in Santa Cruz do Sul / RS. Public policies are created from needs, a gap, an empirical situation that must be corrected and improved in society and it can involve different themes. This research aimed to analyze how interest groups and pressure groups interfere in environmental policies, especially concerning urban solid waste (USW) management (MSW), highlighting the domestic solid waste (DSW). The aim is to investigate how these interest groups and pressure groups are articulated as well as finding out how their strategies affect environmental public policies and their impact on regional development, considering domestic solid waste (DSW) management in the city where the study took place. The management was analyzed according to the National Solid Waste Policy (2010), exactly in the year in which the Law completes a decade of existence since its promulgation. The study also analyzed the management based on the City Statute (2001) aiming to understand the Laws’ demand norms, but analyzing how both, the National Solid Waste Policy, and the City Statute, are empirically practiced by public managers. The theoretical basis of the research was based on Public Policies since its formulation, interest groups, defense coalitions, Environmental Public Policies, current environmental legislation, the City Statute (2001) and the National Solid Waste Policy (2010). Also the technique of triangulating data with bibliographic research and documentary research, conducting interviews with public persons and companies involved in the processes and operations of solid urban solid waste management (USW) and also the non-participant observation of the researcher. Evidence was found that there are relations of interest groups in the management of the domestic solid waste (DSW) of the municipality with the public administration due to the high costs that are paid annually to the bidding and contracted companies; the lack of environmental education and awareness programs for the local population; the large amount of recyclable waste that is mixed with organic waste and waste, generating tons of waste daily; the underutilization of the Municipal Waste Pickers and Recyclers Cooperative (Coomcat) and, also, the absence of a municipal environmental inspection that takes care of matters pertinent to the theme.