Catadores, organizações e materiais recicláveis: um estudo na região metropolitana do Recife/PE

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Rolim, Renata Souza
• Orientador(a): Teixeira, Karla Maria Damiano
• Banca de defesa: Faria, Maurício Sardá de , Silva, Neuza Maria da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Economia Doméstica
• Departamento: Economia familiar; Estudo da família; Teoria econômica e Educação do consumidor
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Catadores de lixo; Coleta seletiva de lixo; Reaproveitamento (Sobras, refugos, etc) Organização; Associações, instituições; Indústria de reciclagem
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Collectors of waste; Garbage collection; Reuse (Leftovers, waste, etc) Organization; Associations, institutions; Recycling industry
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA DOMESTICA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3398

Facing the changing world of work, resulting crises of the capitalist mode of production, a greater number of people became unemployed, thus resorting to informal activities in order to ensure their survival. Part of this population, especially for its low level of education and qualification, search on scavenging for recyclables alternative work to generate income. The pickers have organized themselves into associations and cooperatives, and the National Movement of Recyclable Materials (MNCR) as a way to achieve improvements in their working conditions and living in personal, family and social, to give visibility to their work and join forces to claim their demands. Scavengers are the main actors in the production chain of recycling, putting Brazil, including the position of the largest recyclers countries globally. In this sense, the aim of knowing the history of the three main waste recycling process agents: the collector of recyclable materials, the organization (cooperatives and associations) and the garbage in order to understand how these stories interact, complement and influence. The study was qualitative, the population had as waste pickers organized into associations and cooperatives in the Metropolitan Region of Recife. The research took place in the period from October to December of the year 2013, with the construction of primary data obtained through semi-structured interviews, and closed when it reached the saturation point. For data processing, we used content analysis. Its occupational trajectory of scavengers was marked by informality, with the understanding that it is mainly by their poor education and qualification, the main requirements for anyone seeking a place in the formal labor market. Thus, many collectors sought to organize themselves into cooperatives and associations for believing that through the collective work could improve your working conditions. However, the organizations studied, to be comprised of people with low education, they faced difficulties in administrative proceedings is therefore important the training offered by NGOs, universities and municipalities, so that these workers could be organized better. Scavengers studied showed little knowledge about the fate of recyclables from marketing. In general, the history of collectors, organizations and recyclable materials, is because these workers seek work scavenging for unemployment, however, this possibility also gives the combined population growth, industrialization and changes in consumer habits , which encourages the growth of recycling industries, since there are a large number of people who scavenge these recyclables can reinsert them in the industries. These scavengers are organized by organizations (associations and cooperatives), in search of better working conditions, and consequently higher income. Thus showing that the operation of this triad is critical to the functioning of the supply chain of recycling, which is interesting in regard to environmental issues, it can-not say the same when it comes to social issues, since the collectors although the most important actors are economically disadvantaged.