O sistema de produção dos têxteis no Brasil : a legislação e a cadeia do algodão frente à teoria do risco e aos impactos socioambientais

Abstract

In the present study, the environmental damages caused by the cultivation of cotton from the hyperconsumerism and solid textile residues of this natural fiber of greater world-wide importance are analyzed. At first, we analyzed the Risk Theory, drawn as a defining and fundamental point for the course of the study, and presented as adequate to support the analysis of the environmental risks and damages caused by the production of cotton, its residues and hyperconsumption . In a second step, we work on the ways of producing cotton in Brazil, bringing the benefits of organic cultivation, and the approach to growing cotton-growing transgenics. It addresses the intense use of pesticides, making difficult the existence of a sustainable cycle. Next, it focuses on the environmental impacts caused by the textile industry, emphasizing the theme of textile solid waste from cotton. The method used is the deductive analytic, based on the exploratory bibliographical research. Finally, it reveals the legal and legal permissibility when hosting the traditional methods used in the development of cotton crops, especially as regards the high level of pesticides. Textile waste from cotton, industry and consumers is little used for social reuse programs; however, they remain a social problem, since the National Solid Waste Policy did not lead to a practical solution. It is recognized that neglect of environmental damage is immense in the risk society of modernity characterized by capitalist advancement. The trajectory of hyperconsumption exposes a behavior centered on social individualism even in the face of recurrent disasters.