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- Title
COMERCIANTES E A GESTÃO DE RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS: PERCEPÇÃO, VISIBILIDADE, RELEVÂNCIA E INCLUSÃO DE CATADORES DE MATERIAIS RECICLÁVEIS EM ARAÇUAÍ, MG.
- Authors
SILVA, Carlos Augusto Pereira da; SANTOS JÚNIOR, Valdevino José dos; LOPES, Manamares de Souza Coutinho; SANTOS, Eliane Macedo Sobrinho; OTONI, Bruna de Souza
- Abstract
With the National Solid Waste Policy (NSWP), solid waste management (SWM) emerged, making the recyclable material collectors more visible in society. In this context, the objective was to evaluate, in the context of the SWM, the perception of traders about recyclable material collectors in Araçuaí, MG, as well as to raise aspects about the visibility, the relevance of the work and the inclusion of the collectors in the city. For this, a questionnaire with seven questions was applied to 62 traders in nine segments. The results showed that the majority of traders are composed of employees (82%), managers (13%) and owners (5%), who demonstrated to have some knowledge about SWM as selective collection and materials recyclable, but showed low adherence to waste separation, a premise of selective collection. As for the visibility and the inclusion of waste pickers in the collection of recyclable materials, it was found that traders attach importance to the work. In addition, the majority of them claimed that they would send the waste to an association of municipal waste pickers. Regarding the waste pickers, the present study raised some socioeconomic issues, but these must be deepened in order to make the relevance of the waste pickers work as environmental agents even more visible. We conclude that it is important for the municipality of Araçuaí to implement a SWM plan in accordance with the NSWP, which should adopt shared responsibility, encourage traders to separate recyclable materials for the purpose of selective collection and allocate them to the association of waste pickers, providing formal work, income and environmental benefits.
- Subjects
SOLID waste management; SOLID waste; RAGPICKERS; VISIBILITY; CITIES &; towns; RECYCLABLE material
- Publication
Nucleus (16786602), 2020, Vol 17, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
1678-6602
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3738/1982.2278.3794