Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sustainable Living in Curitiba
- Recycling
- Since 1980s
- People separate rubbish into
organic(compost) and non organic.
- Two teams collect the rubbish
- Enough recycling has been collected to build thousands of skyscrapers
- Waste is sorted then recyclables
are sent for proccessing
- Creates more jobs and the
project funds itself, because
the government sell the things
they make.
- Parks
- Flooding has been stopped by
surrounding rivers with parks
and trees
- The trees absorb the water
- Preventing squatters and shanty towns
- Old
factories
made into
sports
facilities
- Patrols in parks
ensure that squatters
are moved on.
- Transport
- Bus Lanes
- Companies are paid in how many miles they
travel not how many passengers they have
- Different types of buses
- Express bus
move fast
with few
stops
- Stopping buses take
people from outside the
city to express routes
- Suburban buses take
people round the city
- More people
can be carried
on the bendy
buses
- One fare goes anywhere so
its is cheaper
- Less congestion in city
- One of the least polluted
cities in Brazil
- Trains and tubes are too
expensive buses are x500 cheaper
- Shanty towns
- Rubbish collection
- People collect rubbish in return
for food or bus tickets
- People sell the food that they don't eat
- They can use bus tickets
to go to the city to look for
work or sell produce
- People get what would be
wasted food
- Resulting in less food waste