Garbage waste people create, researcher warns of UnB
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Gilberto Costa
Reporter Agency Brazil
Marcello Casal Jr./ABr
Brasília - Collectors recyclable materials claim the entire country of falling earnings, the increase in service and the extension of the working day
Brasilia - The collectors of solid waste must be recycled their working conditions. This is a likely outcome of any person to visit a landfill or look in your street collectors seeking recyclables in the garbage cans.
"These people [collectors] are subject to many risks, they work in places and under inappropriate conditions, unhealthy and dangerous," warns Valéria Gentil, researcher and PhD students of the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasilia (CDS / UnB).
"I deal in my work, as people waste," says the researcher, the concept name used to identify who is outside the formal labor market. "These people are left and the shadow system," complements. Working conditions and exploitation by the researcher also studied are characterized by the coexistence of transmitting animal diseases (rats, cockroaches, flies) and physical, chemical, biological and ergonomic.
The collector Joaci Oliveira dos Santos works at the landfill Estrutural, located near the highway that connects Ceilândia and Taguatinga, the most populous cities of the Federal District, the Pilot Plan, which are the Planalto Palace, the seat of Congress and Supreme Court (STF).
Santos worked for ten years in the landfill and says that during this period, came to witness deaths trampling and crushing on site. Cases like these are also in memory of the collector Lucia Fernandes do Nascimento, who has furou several times with needles discarded in the trash.
14 years ago in the landfill Estrutural the collector João Alexandre Carmo, 50 years old, complains of severe pain in the back and says this is one of the toughest activities in which it worked. He noted that already boots, popsicle vendor, repair cookers and worked up as clown.
A chance to recycle the working conditions may be the formation of cooperatives. "It's escape from the work in the informal autonomy, to organize a cooperative to have higher productivity and social protection," the executive director of the Business Commitment to Recycling, André Vilhena. The organization is funded by 25 large private companies that use recycled material in packaging of their products.
For the teacher Peter Zuchi, Center for Studies in Economics and Environment (CEMA) of the UnB, the social economy of cooperatives is a good strategy to improve the living conditions of the collectors. He emphasizes, however, the need for the government and society would otherwise consider the market for recyclable waste.
"They play a much greater than that of the garbage collectors, but the role of recycling in a society of consumption that is not accurate perception of the problem of how the environment can absorb this quantity of waste being generated" , points to the economist.
Most of the waste produced in Brazil comes from the most wealthy, with greater capacity for consumption. Second study published last year by WWF and the Ibope, "if everyone in the world adopt the same consumption pattern of class A and B in Brazil, it would take three planets Earth to restore the natural resources used."
Zuchi Peter adds that we must turn off the trash, bring workers to the building of cooperatives and keep school children who often accompany their parents in the landfill. The collector Joaci Oliveira Santos confirms that the cooperatives do not admit the presence of children and adds that they should receive special care and away from landfills.
Source: Agência Brasil
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