Diogo Appel Colvero
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Ana Paula Duarte Gomes
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Luís António da Cruz Tarelho
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Manuel Arlindo Amador de Matos
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José Carlos Martins Ramalho
Most Brazilian municipalities are small, i.e., with less than 50,000 inhabitants. In the State of Goiás, for example, 91% of the municipalities are small. Of these, only 4% have their municipal solid waste (MSW) disposed in authorized landfills. Thus, the present study aimed
to propose a municipal solid waste management facility (MSWMF) shared between two small municipalities of the microregion of Chapada dos Veadeiros, in Northeast Goiás. The reason for selecting this microregion is that it is composed only of small municipalities that use waste
dumps for the disposal of their MSW. For this purpose, the areas subject to approval or restricted for the installation of a MSWMF were identified with the aid of a geographic information system (GIS). Also, the host municipality (HM) of the MSWMF proposed for Campos Belos and Monte Alegre
de Goiás was defined with the use of mass geometry methodology. According to the results obtained, 59% of the territories of these two municipalities that will integrate the proposed MSWMF are restricted for the installation of landfills, and Monte Alegre de Goiás was selected
to host the landfill.
USE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE EVALUATION OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE IN KHULNA CITY