Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
29/04/2013
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Vladimir Platonow
Brazil Agency reporter
Rio de Janeiro - The end of the dumps across the country, expected to occur from August 2014, represent an environmental gain but can generate a social liability. Law 12.305/10, which established the National Policy on Solid Waste, obliges municipalities to deposit the garbage in landfills controlled, which means a better ranking of waste, which will not pollute the environment, but at the same time represents the end of work for thousands of collectors.
In the state of Rio de Janeiro, the closure of Jardim Gramacho Landfill, in Baixada Fluminense, in June last year, on the eve of the Rio +20 (UN Conference on Sustainable Development), caused a significant improvement in quality of life the region, but left thousands of families without a source of income daily. Despite receiving a compensation of R$ 14,000, the majority of workers spent the money without it has secured a new way of working. Statewide, it is estimated that at least 40,000 people live directly from recycling.
The issue was discussed during the installation of the Special Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj), set up to investigate the eradication of landfills Fluminense. For the environmentalist Sergio Ricardo, you have to respect what the law says, when he requires the setting up of separate collection in order to absorb the scavengers.
"The law of the solid waste is being disrespected. Are disabling the dumps, but keeping an exclusion process with recyclable material. They are not being compensated, except Gramacho, and at this point are without work and without income, "said the environmentalist.
The vice-president of the commission, Mrs Aspasia Camargo (PV), highlighted the need to reconcile environmental gains with the use of the labor of collectors. "The problem is not only eradicate the dumps, but also make the new model of waste treatment is the best possible technologically and humanly, taking advantage of people. This special committee is concentrated in pockets of poverty that are suffering from the transition policy to eradicate the dumps, "he said.
The chair of the committee fell to Mrs Janira Rocha (PSOL), which advocates the inclusion of scavengers through cooperatives. "In practice, when we will monitor what is happening, the collectors are not included. Many of the features that should come to them by municipalities simply disappear. The goal is to monitor the process of implementation of the law of solid waste, "said Janira.
One of the major social problems in the state is in the vicinity of the former landfill Itaoca, in São Gonçalo, in the metropolitan area. After the site was closed in February last year, 786 families lost their livelihood, according denounced former catcher Adeir Albino da Silva. "The situation is the worst possible. Many people are sick, have lost the strength to work, but not retired. It is a real disaster. They took the dump and did not tell us anything. We have no more rubbish for recycling. The situation of abandonment and total chaos. We are in pure misery, "denounced.
The former picker Silvia Maria, who overnight lost their source of money, argues that there is at least one compensation. "We're chasing a compensation that can at least give for a popcorn cart or hamburger. I do not have to pay Social Security to retire. From where I'm going to take this money, if there is no way? "Asked Sylvia Maria, who survives with about R$ 70 which receives the Bolsa Família Program, and donations of clothes and food delivered by neighbors and churches.
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