This study aims to identify the performance of municipal management in the application of
the National Policy of Solid Waste in Santarém. The methodology used was the bibliographic
and documentary research in legislation and historical data of the National Sanitation
Information System, with historical cut from 2010 to 2019 of solid waste collection in
Santarém. There was an increase in the population in the municipality, which is in line with
the increasingly frequent number of solid waste, generating more than 40 thousand tons of
solid waste in 9 years. Currently, the majority of the population has waste collections 2-3
times per week in each neighborhood, increasing the number of neighborhoods served. With
the expansion of the collection service, there was also an increase in the amounts spent for
this purpose, as observed throughout the study, with an expense of R $ 9 million in 2017. As
for the management of these wastes, there was greater spending in 2014, reaching the figure
of R $ -17,757,618.36. In assessing this per capita expenditure, it is observed that the cost is R
$ 83.44 per inhabitant in 2014. Thus, it can be observed that the average unit cost of the
household and public waste collection service in Santarém per ton had the highest increase in
2014, reaching the amount of R $ 155.84 per ton. In 2017, the amount of mass collected from
household and public waste was 1.06 kg per inhabitant, daily. It is noteworthy that the
Municipality of Santarém already has municipal municipal waste management legislation as
recommended by PNRS, but there are still difficulties that hinder the application of this set of
laws, such as the lack of financial resources, requiring the support of the Federal Government
and State to effect the integrated and sustainable management of municipal waste. It was
concluded that the main approach in waste management is to raise awareness of generating
sources, that is, society in general, which consumes in excess, and wastes a lot of raw
materials, risking the lack of them in the very near future.
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