ABSTRACT: Currently, there are numerous challenges regarding the management of household waste. Since the city is an important pole of consumption of raw materials, it is also the main environment where most of the activities related to the management of this waste are performed. With new requirements resulting from the increased demand for services and infrastructure, urban planning should be directed to meet those needs. Primarly, urban planning should support the, organization of the urban environment in accordance with its various features. This article aims to analyze and discuss the possibilities of including criteria for household waste management in urban policies. For this an urban area in the municipality of São Paulo, was adopted as a case study object in order to assess potential solutions related to the stages of household waste management.
The analysis showed that there is a close connection between urban equipment and services directed to household waste management with the urban planning. Besides, the Strategic Plan and the Land Use Act of the Municipality of São Paulo leave gaps about strategies for spatial adequacy and provision of equipment for the management of household waste in areas of urban density, such as a lack of estimates of new ecopoints, sorting centers or modification of the collection system. The Building Standards Code, in turn, in its current version, also leaves gaps about the requirement of specific enclosures for waste storage in ordinary buildings, while does not define their size criteria.
