TRABALHOS DOS CATADORES DE MATERIAIS RECICLÁVEIS NA REGIÃO LESTE DE GOIÂNIA-GOIÁS EM ÁREAS URBANAS COMO ALTERNATIVA PARA SUSTENTABILIDADE

Abstract

This research part of the begin that the world environmental crisis allied to the excessive generation of solid residues has been motivating a series of conflicts and problems related to the urban solid residues. In that context, this work presents a qualitative study of the life path, work and health of workers living from recycling garbage in the modern society. The theme is justified due to the high number of those workers in every country and the reality of social exclusion/insertion in your life paths and work, consequence of the fragility of the social supports. The vision that frames the catadores of materials objecteding recycled how excluded social, the research discusses this category while useful workers, fundamental links of a chain of the reciclagem in the country, although marginalized and not recognized socially. The research was accomplished by documental analysis and glimpses workers that participate of selective collection in reciclagem deposits close to and in autonomous way in the streets of Goiânia-GO. The interpretation of the research verified that, with relationship to the workers, the precariousness of the relationships of the work exists, such as the lack of physical structure, equipments, registration in work wallet, low wages, besides problems with the traffic. The analysis of data appears for the need of looking for a partnership among being able to municipal-society-workers living from recycling garbage, as a strategy capable to solve the established problems around the urban garbage.