Proper use and reuse of resources in the city’s metabolism, Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso (MT)_ 1

Rondonópolis, a medium-sized city in the interior of Mato Grosso, has high temperatures practically all year round. Moreover, it has an urban network spread over a large territorial extension, evidencing the spatial segregation and the need for large displacements of the population on a daily basis. The strong demographic growth of the last decade had a significant impact on the territorial occupation and brought great challenges for urban planning, such as lack of security, traffic jams, urban voids, roads without adequate paving, disorganized construction, and, consequently, impacts on the city’s climate, with increasingly higher temperatures, open-air debris deposits, and reduction of water resources, among others. The Conscious Shelters project aims to reuse the enormous supply of sunlight to illuminate the existing structures, improving the safety and comfort of public transport users. The project for Technological Innovation in the management of civil construction residues foresees the optimization of human and material resources in the operation of the municipality’s existing recycling plant, promoting the reuse and recycling of civil construction residues as raw material, bringing more economic and environmental benefits and minimizing the extraction of natural resources.