GERENCIAMENTO DE ÁREAS CONTAMINADAS NO BRASIL: UMA ANÁLISE CRÍTICA

Management of contaminated areas in Brazil: a critical analysis

Abstract

Over de last decades, the soil was used as a final disposal medium for industrial and domestic waste due to its supposed buffer power and self-purification potencial, which would allow its recovery without appearancement of major impacts. The soil was considered an unlimited container for many substances and a multitude of materials were discarded in economically viable sites; this was because economic issues overcame the environmental ones and there was also an ignorance of the impacts that this provision could cause, not to mention the absence of environmental legislation that regulated such issues. Only in the 1970s, after major cases of environment and people contamination, specific legislation began to emerge that addressed the issue. In 2009 it was published in Brasil the CONAMA 420, which establishes guidelines for the management of contaminated areas in the country. The present study has the objective of elaborating an overview of enforcement CONAMA 420 by the Brazilian states, specifically article 38 and its sections, as opposed to the industrial profile of each one of them. As a result, it was detected that most states do not comply with the law, or part of it, it is possible to infer that there is no effective action by the public power to manage these contaminated areas.
Keywords: contaminated areas; soil; management.