O hiperconsumo na sociedade moderna : uma análise da sustentabilidade ambiental através da teoria do risco com enfoque nos impactos ambientais dos resíduos sólidos das empresas coureiro-calçadistas no município de Portão, RS

Abstract

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution the Modern Society changed its patterns of consumption, which before in the pre-Modern society was turned to a consumption of subsistence becomes a purely materialistic consumption, causing a deficit by natural resources and generating a multitude of residues that Needs to be discarded making the current system unsustainable. The analytical method was used, with analysis of documents, legislation, doctrine and leading cases. From Beck's Theory of Risk it is evident that modern society creates the ecological risks, being these global, reaching early in the late all the individuals including those who generated the risks, this henomenon Beck defines as Boomerang Effect. The theory of risk is indispensable for the elaboration of public policies of environmental matter due to its precautionary character. Brazil has the National Solid Waste Policy, Rule 12.305 / 2010, which provides guidelines and objectives for the correct management of waste by society, with particular emphasis on non-generation, reduction, reuse, recycling and treatment of solid waste. Starting from this broad global scenario, it is necessary to bring to a local reality, for both the Municipality of Portão located in the Valley of the Rio dos Sinos, the largest industrial pole of the leather-footwear industry in the world was analyzed. It was found that leather waste is reused by a company to manufacture organic fertilizers. In the end, an analysis of hyperconsumption was made as a promoter of the leather-footwear industry of Portão / Rio Grande do Sul, and how laughter is accepted in society in order to maintain the region's economy.