Resíduos biológicos produzidos por clínicas veterinárias e petshops no município de São Luís, Maranhão

Abstract

Health care waste (RSS) is of the utmost importance, especially biological waste, when it is not properly treated and then disposed of correctly, leading to major impacts through the transmission of diseases, both for the environment and for The public health that comes in contact with these infectious waste. For this to happen, it is necessary to adopt measures that minimize the impacts generated by these wastes, and the most correct procedure to be adopted is the health service waste management plan (PGRSS), which aims at adopting measures from the Waste in the establishment of origin until its final destination. Each generator should prepare a PGRSS, describing the actions related to solid waste management, which are: Segregation, packaging, identification, treatment, transportation, storage, collection and final disposal. Therefore, the work involved the application of a questionnaire containing several questions about the types of waste produced in the establishments, quantity, forms of segregation and packaging, final destination and whether they had a management plan that helped in the correct ways of handling these With a greater emphasis on biological waste. Its main objective is to analyze the methods adopted in the veterinary clinics and petshops of São Luís, to compare the results obtained with other studies carried out in the same sector, to compare the results obtained with the literature and if they are in accordance with the current legislation in the sector.