Estudo sócio-econômico da cidade de Tailândia-Pa: Subsídio para o Aproveitamento Econômico dos Resíduos de Madeira

Abstract

The municipality of Tailândia is located 200 km from Belém, along the PA-150 highway, in the northeast of the State of Pará. Its area is 4,780.3 km2 and its population is 38,435 inhabitants. Tailândia is considered one of the major logging poles of the state of Pará. Most of the raw material from the sawmills is not used by the companies, which end up adopting the incineration process or accumulating it in inappropriate places, causing mainly silting up of the fluvial network. The present work aims to analyze the viability of using wood waste as a vector for generating employment and income, through the formation of Terra Preta Nova (TPN). With the help of questionnaires and interviews, a socio-economic survey will be carried out, which will show the main activities performed, as well as the destination of the residues from the lumber mills and slaughterhouses in the Municipality of Tailândia. Five (5) socio-economic indicators are also being analyzed (Equity, Education, Health, Public Spending and Extractivism) that will help in a better presentation of the diagnosis. The production of the sawmills varies from 40 to 680 m3 per month with a typical monthly production between 250 and 350 m3. Thailand has 48 lumber companies that have a high waste of raw material in the production of lumber, because for each m3 of lumber 2 to 3 m3 of roundwood are needed. Another factor that contributes to this waste of waste is the concentration in the production of only one type of product: sawn wood planks with standardized dimensions. Thus, there is the prospect of reviving extractivism as a production with economic potential and environmental preservation, through the formation of Terra Preta Nova from wood waste and slaughterhouse waste.