Gestão integrada de resíduos sólidos como fator de inclusão socioeconômica? : a Cooperativa de Catadores e Recicladores de Santa Cruz do Sul/RS - Brasil.

Abstract

This research investigated the Santa Cruz do Sul Cooperators and Recyclers Cooperative - COOMCAT, which since 2010 has been contracted by the municipality of Santa Cruz do Sul to carry out some stages on solid waste management in the municipality. The first contracting took place in September 2010, when the administration of the Municipal Sorting Plant - UT was transferred; at the end of 2012, COOMCAT was contracted to begin the Solidary Selective Collection - CSS - in three neighborhoods of Santa Cruz do Sul; in September 2013 a pavilion was rented to carry out the sorting of recyclable materials collected by CSS and in November the CSS was extended to another 6 neighborhoods. In December 2014, the CSS Municipal Program won the Cidade Pró-Catador Prize, an initiative of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic and the Banco do Brasil Foundation. With all this advancement and recognition, the municipal program appears to have great socioeconomic inclusion. Using dialectical historical materialism and qualitative investigations carried out at COOMCAT, with semi-structured interviews, documentary research and participant observation, a new perspective is presented for this constructed scenario, in which the results go through the effort of including the scavengers themselves That a good municipal solid waste management, since the research verified that the management is not focused on the socioeconomic inclusion of the waste pickers.