A organização territorial da cadeia de valor dos resíduos plásticos: uma avaliação dos processos socioeconômicos de produção das cooperativas e associações de Curitiba

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Bolson, Camille Rossato
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná; Curitiba; Brasil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia e Sociedade; UTFPR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sucata de plástico; Indústria de reciclagem; Cooperativas de reciclagem - Curitiba (PR); Política pública; Análise de valor (Controle de custo); Gestão integrada de resíduos sólidos; Plastic scrap; Recycling industry; Recycling cooperatives - Curitiba (Brazil); Public policy; Value analysis (Cost control); Integrated solid waste mangement; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS; Sociais e Humanidades
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/30620

The utopia of infinite economic growth today depends on plastics as a means of accelerating the capital cycle, as far as they serve precisely the necessary assumptions to operate a planned contraction of the use value of goods without affecting production costs: the less the objective and subjective utility of an artifact lasts, the faster another is consumed and, therefore, the capital cycle is carried out in a shorter period. In this context, the production and impacts caused by plastic waste become a socioeconomic and environmental impasse not only for the public administration of the municipalities, but also for the undertakings self-managed by the collectors: given the physical-morphological diversity of plastic waste, its densities technologies and volume generated. Thus, this research presented as its theme the territorial organization of the value chain of plastic waste production in Curitiba. The production of plastic waste corresponds to 22.21% of the volume sold by associations and cooperatives in Curitiba and represents, on average, 43.43% of the financial transactions of these enterprises. In this sense, based on the reflections raised throughout the thesis, the present work answered the following problem: how is the value chain of the socioeconomic processes of plastic waste production of cooperatives and associations of collectors of recyclable materials in the city of Curitiba configured territorially? Therefore, the study's specific objectives were, firstly, to analyze the territorial configuration of plastic waste flows; secondly, to analyze the governance of the value chain that is organized from plastic waste; and, finally, to analyze the prices of plastic materials along the production chain. To achieve the proposed objectives, the research was methodologically supported by the use of semistructured and non-structured interviews carried out in 31 organizations, by bibliographical and documentary analysis of primary and secondary data from 36 cooperatives and associations. The analyzed reports correspond to the period between September 2019 and December 2020. Therefore, the thesis characterizes the organizations that make up the plastic waste productive sector, their productive activities, the way they generate value, the price changes that occur throughout the chain and, finally, points to how power relations are established between these actors. It was concluded that most organizations are concentrated in a belt in the southernmost region of the city, which is also one of the poorest places in Curitiba. It was also evident that there is a much higher incidence of two companies than the others on the production organization and pricing of materials. It is also possible to state that the plastics value chain is profoundly influenced by the large companies that produce virgin plastic and by the petrochemical industry, since both condition the prices of materials.