Lixo ordinário, espacialidades extraordinárias: o entulho como matéria prima para construir

Abstract

The contemporary reality sensitizes us by the approach of the exhaustion of natural resources and the accumulation of waste, being of extreme urgency the intellectual investment, besides the financial and the technological one, in this reflection on the treatment of everything that is consumed and discarded. It is worth recalling that this concern is not recent and has been raised since the nineteenth century in the neoclassical school, where the Marxist argument was maintained that the predatory exploitation of natural resources, promoted by capitalist techniques, would disturb the maintenance of the planet's ecosystem. However, this concern has always been softened by prioritizing the immediate reproduction of capital. Faced with the current productive process, its excesses in the extraction and accumulation of material discards, and its irreversible environmental accidents, the present text aims to motivate a reflection about the waste generated when environmental conscience is not predominant, ethically considering the existing entropy in matter and in its natural cycles in the environment. The text seeks to bring the added value of this waste to the capitalist interest itself by proposing, demonstrating and arguing that the so-called garbage is actually a new gold mine. In this sense, the question of waste in civil construction is used to show the potential in only one of several cycles in the production chain, and the "unlimited" characteristic that the production process assumes, considering that the residual components of a given process, or from consumption, can always be treated as inputs to a new process, and in this way suggest the emergence of new social conceptions that are more just and integrated with the planet, but can still generate profits and become part of the means of production currently capitalists.