Condições de vida e trabalho dos catadores de lixo de Maceió

Abstract

This study results of an empirical research which analyzes the life trajectories and work of a garbage selectors group in Maceió-Al, nowadays inserted directly in the productive chain of recycling. The objective of this work was to analyze the trash recycling process, as an environmental policy that reorients the production of new materials usinor those dismissable ones, detaching the role of the selectors, their insertion in the productive process, their work relationship and their life conditions.The research involved referring methodological procedures to the bibliographical research, the documentary one and the empirical research, being used the techniques of the participant observation to analysis of the daily one, and of the interview half-structuralized for the reconstruction of their histories of life. The development of the research made in possible for us to understand that the reality of the selecting in Maceió had not been modified. These selectors are the same abandoned of long ago that feed the production chain of the recycles. We conclude that the field work here realized in corroborate, in the theory of Gonçalves, who the perverse cycle is much more observed them the virtuous cycle and, still with more reason, than the anatomical cycle of recycling. In short, the activity of selecting doesn t foresee the social fairness and, therefore, don t foresee the sustainable development.