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Comlurb's Tracked Waste Collection Fleet

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Tracking came to Rio's waste system as a licensing condition: since 2019 a hauler whose truck arrives without a tracker fails inspection outright. Recycling still recovers about 11% of the recyclable material.

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Run byComlurb (Companhia Municipal de Limpeza Urbana)
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Comlurb, Rio's municipal cleaning company, runs a real-time monitoring panel at its Tijuca headquarters over the 200 compactor trucks that do household collection — 24 hours a day, Monday to Saturday, across about 800 routes — plus 650 other vehicles and machines that raise real-time alerts when one leaves the city limits, turns up late, stops too long, or tips at an unscheduled transfer station. For the private fleets, tracking is a licensing condition rather than an option, and the underlying obligation is the state's: Lei Estadual nº 6.862 of 15 July 2014 requires waste haulers to fit trackers, and Comlurb's accreditation rules of 29 January 2019 made an unpresented tracker grounds for summary failure of the vehicle at inspection. The rules re-issued on 19 February 2026 go further: every vehicle in an accredited fleet must carry a tracker compatible with Comlurb's own control system and capable of showing the whole fleet live, and Comlurb must be able to see the routes driven and the discharge points, with recyclable-waste holders and cooperatives reporting monthly what they collected and where they tipped it. A separate ordinance of 7 November 2025 extended the same logic to large waste generators, who must declare volumes, haulers and disposal sites annually or face fines. What the data layer has not fixed is recycling: Comlurb reports selective collection recovering about 5,700 tonnes a month, roughly 11% of the recyclable material it estimates the city throws away.

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🎓 Lesson

Tracking arrived in Rio's waste system as a licensing condition before it became an efficiency tool, and it arrived from the state rather than the city. Comlurb can prove where a lorry went and fail a hauler that hides it — but has published no measured gain in collection cost, coverage or recycling. Its own control-room announcement describes dashboards and alerts and reports no result.

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Sources

↗ Prefeitura do Rio / Comlurb — Central de monitoramento da frota de coleta domiciliarPublished 18 February 2022Operator/city page, read in full 2026-08-27; published 18/02/2022 11:55. Carries the operational figures: 'os 200 caminhões compactadores que fazem a coleta domiciliar da companhia, com acompanhamento 24h por dia, de segunda a sábado, em cerca de 800 roteiros de serviços' and 'outros 650 veículos e equipamentos da Comlurb são acompanhados e emitem alertas em tempo real… veículos que saíram dos limites do município do Rio de Janeiro; atrasos nas apresentações; longas paradas; veículos vazando os resíduos em Estações de Transferência de Resíduos (ETR) diferentes das programadas', plus Power BI fleet and workforce dashboards. Note what it does not say: the words GPS, rastreamento and roteiro programado do not appear on the page, and it reports no measured result.
↗ Portaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 29/01/2019 (LegisWeb)Published 1 February 2019Read in full 2026-08-27. Dated 29/01/2019, 'Publicado no DOM - Rio de Janeiro em 1 fev 2019', and marked on LegisWeb as revoked by the 2026 portaria. Art. 5.08: 'Para a frota de coleta de Lixo Extraordinário a não apresentação de rastreadores em cada um dos veículos a serem vistoriados será motivo para a sumária reprovação do veículo, sendo os rastreadores compatíveis com o sistema de controle e fiscalização da COMLURB'; art. 5.09 makes a missing tracking contract under Lei Estadual nº 6.862/2014 grounds for failing the entire fleet, and requires the accredited firm to give Comlurb a password showing the route driven and the discharge locations.
↗ Portaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 19/02/2026 (LegisWeb)Published 20 February 2026Read in full 2026-08-27. Dated 19/02/2026, 'Publicado no DOM - Rio de Janeiro em 20 fev 2026'. Art. 9 §8: 'Todos os veículos pertencente à frota deverão estar equipados com rastreadores em conformidade com a Lei Estadual n° 6.862, de 15 de julho de 2014'; §9 requires the trackers to be compatible with Comlurb's system and to 'Possibilitar o rastreamento de toda a frota da referida empresa credenciada em tempo real'. Art. 26 requires Comlurb to be able to see 'Roteiros efetuados por todos os veículos e alerta que evidencie desvios de rota para fora do Município' and 'Locais de vazamento'. Monthly reporting of weight or volume and discharge locations is required of recyclable-waste holders (§6) and of cooperatives (§5), not of every accredited firm; client records are updated weekly under art. 25.
↗ Comlurb — Banco de dados de geradores de lixo extraordinário (11 Nov 2025)Read in full 2026-08-27; published 11/11/2025 11:30. Portaria nº 009 of 7 November 2025 obliges every generator of lixo extraordinário except households to declare production, collection and destination. Reporting is annual — 'As informações deverão ser enviadas anualmente' — with ten working days to report a change, a 90-day transition, and 'advertências, multas e outras sanções legais' for non-compliance. Lei nº 3.273/2001 sets the threshold at 120 litres or 60 kilos a day.
↗ Comlurb — Coleta Seletiva: históricoOperator page, read in full 2026-08-27, carrying no visible date. 'a Comlurb coleta cerca de 5.700 toneladas de materiais recicláveis por mês, considerando tanto a coleta feita pela frota própria quanto o volume recolhido pelos recicladores autônomos'; 'Esse montante representa cerca de 11% dos materiais potencialmente recicláveis na cidade, estimados em 40%'; 117 neighbourhoods; 29 cooperatives benefiting about 450 families.

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  1. LegisWeb · platformPortaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 29/01/2019 (LegisWeb)
  2. Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro · city governmentPrefeitura do Rio / Comlurb — Central de monitoramento da frota de coleta domiciliar
  3. Companhia Municipal de Limpeza Urbana (Comlurb) · utilityComlurb — Banco de dados de geradores de lixo extraordinário (11 Nov 2025)
  4. LegisWeb · platformPortaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 19/02/2026 (LegisWeb)

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Claim 1 clm-ffe1cc172c098513 quantitative
Comlurb, Rio's municipal cleaning company, runs a real-time monitoring panel at its Tijuca headquarters over the 200 compactor trucks that do household collection — 24 hours a day, Monday to Saturday, across about 800 routes — plus 650 other vehicles and machines that raise real-time alerts when one leaves the city limits, turns up late, stops too long, or tips at an unscheduled transfer station
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
'A Comlurb mantém em operação em sua sede, na Tijuca, o Centro Operacional, um moderno painel de monitoramento em tempo real… dos 200 caminhões compactadores… com acompanhamento 24h por dia, de segunda a sábado, em cerca de 800 roteiros de serviços', and 'outros 650 veículos e equipamentos… emitem alertas em tempo real' on exactly those conditions.
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Sources carrying this claim

  1. Prefeitura do Rio / Comlurb — Central de monitoramento da frota de coleta domiciliar
Claim 2 clm-87062bbfb0be1eaf quantitative
the underlying obligation is the state's: Lei Estadual nº 6.862 of 15 July 2014 requires waste haulers to fit trackers, and Comlurb's accreditation rules of 29 January 2019 made an unpresented tracker grounds for summary failure of the vehicle at inspection
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The 2019 portaria cites 'Lei Estadual nº 6.862, de 15 de julho de 2014 - Obriga as empresas que prestam serviço de remoção e transporte de lixo a equiparem com rastreador nos veículos' and states at 5.08 that a missing tracker 'será motivo para a sumária reprovação do veículo'.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Portaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 29/01/2019 (LegisWeb)
Claim 3 clm-41588817dc35d553 quantitative
The rules re-issued on 19 February 2026 go further: every vehicle in an accredited fleet must carry a tracker compatible with Comlurb's own control system and capable of showing the whole fleet live, and Comlurb must be able to see the routes driven and the discharge points, with recyclable-waste holders and cooperatives reporting monthly what they collected and where they tipped it
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Art. 9 §8 and §9 ('Possibilitar o rastreamento de toda a frota da referida empresa credenciada em tempo real'), art. 26 ('Roteiros efetuados por todos os veículos… Locais de vazamento'), and the monthly reporting duties at §5 and §6.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Portaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 19/02/2026 (LegisWeb)
Claim 4 clm-628c2a77469e7e1d quantitative
A separate ordinance of 7 November 2025 extended the same logic to large waste generators, who must declare volumes, haulers and disposal sites annually or face fines
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
'A Comlurb publicou nesta sexta-feira, 07/11, a Portaria nº 009, que obriga todos os geradores de lixo extraordinário… a fornecer informações detalhadas sobre a produção, coleta e destinação de seus resíduos'; 'As informações deverão ser enviadas anualmente'; non-compliance draws 'advertências, multas e outras sanções legais'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Comlurb — Banco de dados de geradores de lixo extraordinário (11 Nov 2025)
Claim 5 clm-251bb89604670fe8 quantitative
Comlurb reports selective collection recovering about 5,700 tonnes a month, roughly 11% of the recyclable material it estimates the city throws away
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
'a Comlurb coleta cerca de 5.700 toneladas de materiais recicláveis por mês' and 'Esse montante representa cerca de 11% dos materiais potencialmente recicláveis na cidade, estimados em 40%'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Comlurb — Coleta Seletiva: histórico
Claim 6 clm-2b859d5960fcef0b descriptive
Tracking arrived in Rio's waste system as a licensing condition before it became an efficiency tool, and it arrived from the state rather than the city
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Both portarias impose tracking through accreditation and both rest the duty on state Lei nº 6.862/2014; neither states an operational objective for the data.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Portaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 29/01/2019 (LegisWeb)
  2. Portaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 19/02/2026 (LegisWeb)
Claim 7 clm-f1d3bd5d69677412 descriptive
has published no measured gain in collection cost, coverage or recycling
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The control-room announcement reports dashboards and alerts and no outcome; the selective-collection page reports a recovery rate without relating it to the monitoring.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Prefeitura do Rio / Comlurb — Central de monitoramento da frota de coleta domiciliar
  2. Comlurb — Coleta Seletiva: histórico
Claim 8 clm-24ec0ef35d2ed106 descriptive
Its own control-room announcement describes dashboards and alerts and reports no result
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Read in full, the page lists the Power BI panels and the alert conditions and contains no before/after figure.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Prefeitura do Rio / Comlurb — Central de monitoramento da frota de coleta domiciliar
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Operator
Comlurb (Companhia Municipal de Limpeza Urbana)
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utility
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Prefeitura do Rio / Comlurb — Central de monitoramento da frota de coleta domiciliar prefeitura.rio · 3 linked claims

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2022-02-18
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2026-08-27
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2026-08-27
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Operator/city page, read in full 2026-08-27; published 18/02/2022 11:55. Carries the operational figures: 'os 200 caminhões compactadores que fazem a coleta domiciliar da companhia, com acompanhamento 24h por dia, de segunda a sábado, em cerca de 800 roteiros de serviços' and 'outros 650 veículos e equipamentos da Comlurb são acompanhados e emitem alertas em tempo real… veículos que saíram dos limites do município do Rio de Janeiro; atrasos nas apresentações; longas paradas; veículos vazando os resíduos em Estações de Transferência de Resíduos (ETR) diferentes das programadas', plus Power BI fleet and workforce dashboards. Note what it does not say: the words GPS, rastreamento and roteiro programado do not appear on the page, and it reports no measured result.

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Portaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 29/01/2019 (LegisWeb) legisweb.com.br · 2 linked claims

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Name not classified · legisweb.com.br
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web-page · language not classified
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2019-02-01
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Read in full 2026-08-27. Dated 29/01/2019, 'Publicado no DOM - Rio de Janeiro em 1 fev 2019', and marked on LegisWeb as revoked by the 2026 portaria. Art. 5.08: 'Para a frota de coleta de Lixo Extraordinário a não apresentação de rastreadores em cada um dos veículos a serem vistoriados será motivo para a sumária reprovação do veículo, sendo os rastreadores compatíveis com o sistema de controle e fiscalização da COMLURB'; art. 5.09 makes a missing tracking contract under Lei Estadual nº 6.862/2014 grounds for failing the entire fleet, and requires the accredited firm to give Comlurb a password showing the route driven and the discharge locations.

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Portaria COMLURB nº 2-N de 19/02/2026 (LegisWeb) legisweb.com.br · 2 linked claims

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Name not classified · legisweb.com.br
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2026-02-20
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Read in full 2026-08-27. Dated 19/02/2026, 'Publicado no DOM - Rio de Janeiro em 20 fev 2026'. Art. 9 §8: 'Todos os veículos pertencente à frota deverão estar equipados com rastreadores em conformidade com a Lei Estadual n° 6.862, de 15 de julho de 2014'; §9 requires the trackers to be compatible with Comlurb's system and to 'Possibilitar o rastreamento de toda a frota da referida empresa credenciada em tempo real'. Art. 26 requires Comlurb to be able to see 'Roteiros efetuados por todos os veículos e alerta que evidencie desvios de rota para fora do Município' and 'Locais de vazamento'. Monthly reporting of weight or volume and discharge locations is required of recyclable-waste holders (§6) and of cooperatives (§5), not of every accredited firm; client records are updated weekly under art. 25.

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Claims linked
Comlurb — Banco de dados de geradores de lixo extraordinário (11 Nov 2025) comlurb.prefeitura.rio · 1 linked claim

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2025-11-11
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Read in full 2026-08-27; published 11/11/2025 11:30. Portaria nº 009 of 7 November 2025 obliges every generator of lixo extraordinário except households to declare production, collection and destination. Reporting is annual — 'As informações deverão ser enviadas anualmente' — with ten working days to report a change, a 90-day transition, and 'advertências, multas e outras sanções legais' for non-compliance. Lei nº 3.273/2001 sets the threshold at 120 litres or 60 kilos a day.

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Comlurb — Coleta Seletiva: histórico comlurb.prefeitura.rio · 2 linked claims

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Operator page, read in full 2026-08-27, carrying no visible date. 'a Comlurb coleta cerca de 5.700 toneladas de materiais recicláveis por mês, considerando tanto a coleta feita pela frota própria quanto o volume recolhido pelos recicladores autônomos'; 'Esse montante representa cerca de 11% dos materiais potencialmente recicláveis na cidade, estimados em 40%'; 117 neighbourhoods; 29 cooperatives benefiting about 450 families.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Comlurb's Tracked Waste Collection Fleet” — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/rio-comlurb-fleet-tracking/ (last verified 2026-08-27). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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