Análise do lixo têxtil gerado pelas indústrias de confecções em Taquaral de Goiás (GO) : 2017 / 2019

Abstract

Containing around two hundred factories, the city of Taquaral de Goiás is national reference in intimate fashion due to the presence of an economy based on textile manufacturing industry, but little is known about the generation and disposal of solid waste from the clothing industry. What is seen nowadays in the majority of industrial clusters is a large amount of textile waste being taken to municipal landfills without any treatment. Given this, the objective central to this study was to understand how waste is disposed of in some companies in the city of Taquaral de Goiás. Therefore, it is worth highlighting that Initially, a bibliographical analysis was carried out through the reading of texts, theses, articles and monographs on the topic in question, then a questionnaire was administered for some owners of intimate fashion factories in an attempt to understand how to disposes of waste. After the end of this study, it was found that for interviewees the main types of waste discarded by clothing companies are plastics, fabric and paper, which go to the city landfill when they are no longer used and this shows that they do not recycle waste Textiles.