Aterro sanitário em Seropédica/RJ: injustiça ambiental por meio da vulnerabilidade do município

Abstract

The Chaperó district is located on the border of the municipalities of Seropedica and Itaguaí. The occupation of this area occurred from the late 1950, with an appreciation of the place by sanitation infrastructure works. In the Decade of 1980 it was constructed the popular housing Agrovila Chaperó, where were built 1600 houses by the Caixa Economica Federal Bank in partnership with the State Government to House State servers. Due to distance from the center of Rio de Janeiro, many servers refused to go live on the site. Later families flood victims and residents of high-risk areas were relocated in this neighborhood. It was in this area that the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, through its Environmental Agency, licensed the installation of a solid waste treatment center to replace the Jardim Gramacho Landfill, in Duque de Caxias, on the receipt of the waste produced in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Thus, even in the face of allegations of political maneuvering, with some resistance from the local population and over an important aquifer, in the month of August 2010, began the construction of solid waste treatment center Santa Rosa. In the Environmental impact report, the Chaperó district was considered entirely located within the area of direct influence of the enterprise. Therefore, from the case study of the implementation of Santa Rosa solid waste treatment center in Agrovila Chaperó, sought to identify the conditions of vulnerability that reduce the ability of the municipality to resist the installation of a landfill in their territory. It was carried out a field research in order to analyze the perceptions of residents about the positive and negative impacts of the project. From the results obtained, the case in question looks like to be an environmental injustice case, bearing in mind the geographic displacement of the solid waste from Rio de Janeiro to Seropedica, a municipality that lies under conditions of greater vulnerability.