@Article{MoraisNascSimõOmet:2021:ReDiRo,
               author = "Morais, Laryssa and Nascimento, Victor and Sim{\~o}es, Silvio and 
                         Ometto, Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud",
          affiliation = "{Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)} and {Universidade Federal 
                         do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)} and {Universidade Estadual Paulista 
                         (UNESP)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Regional distance routes estimation for municipal solid waste 
                         disposal, case study S{\~a}o Paulo state, Brazil",
              journal = "Energies",
                 year = "2021",
               volume = "14",
               number = "13",
                pages = "e3964",
                month = "July",
             keywords = "Geographic information system, Landfills, Municipal solid waste 
                         management, Routes.",
             abstract = "The urban population increase in the world, the economic 
                         expansion, and the rise in living standards associated with 
                         societys habits and lifestyles accelerated the municipal solid 
                         waste (MSW) generation in undeveloped countries, such as in 
                         Brazil, in which the generation increased by 25% from 2012 to 
                         2017. In the same period, the S{\~a}o Paulo state, the richest 
                         Brazilian state, increased its municipal solid waste generation by 
                         51%. All this MSW needed to be collected and transported, and this 
                         process has a high economic and environmental cost. Therefore, 
                         this study aims to identify, using spatial analysis, the routes 
                         used by MSW trucks to estimate the distances traveled to dispose 
                         of the MSW on a regional scale considering all municipalities in 
                         the S{\~a}o Paulo state. The findings showed that the landfill 
                         numbers decrease, mainly individual ones, which receive MSW only 
                         from the city where it is located. Otherwise, the consortium 
                         landfills number is increasing, as well as the number of 
                         municipalities that share the same disposal site. Consequently, 
                         the distances to transport MSW from urban areas to final disposal 
                         sites increased by about 55% from 2012 to 2017, reaching 613 
                         million kilometers during this period. This total distance is 
                         sufficient to make more than 12,806 laps on Earth and contribute 
                         to high fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emission.",
                  doi = "10.3390/en14133964",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14133964",
                 issn = "1996-1073",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "morais_regional_2021.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "09 maio 2024"
}