Analysis of the potential for financial gain through carbon credits with the implementation of biodigesters in the Urban Solid Waste disposal system in Campo Grande – MS

Abstract

The increasing consumption of natural resources in recent years has resulted in the problem of thinking about “what to do with waste”. With the population increase, the number of landfills that are created to dispose of waste is progressive, leaving society with these environmental liabilities. This research sought to analyze, continuing other work already carried out, an alternative form of financial gain in the process of implementing a biodigester system in the municipality of Campo Grande – MS. In this way, in addition to reducing the impact on the environment, through the treatment of part of the waste that would be dumped in the landfill, we sought to identify the potential for gain through the generation and sale of carbon credits. Considering two scenarios, one optimistic and one pessimistic, it was possible to identify that in both cases it is advantageous to adopt the carbon credit generation system in the biogas utilization system through biodigesters in the municipality analyzed, with these gains being alternative forms, non-main, of the urban solid waste treatment process