Catadores de materiais recicláveis do município de Fortaleza-CE: condições de trabalho e ações do poder público municipal

Abstract

Faced with today's crisis in the formal labor market, arise new work forms. Generally, these alternatives activities are marked by the informality e by the precariousness way of execution, but they are justifiable because they insure the sustenance of their performers. It’s what happens to waste picking, professional that survive out from the labor world’s laws, acting in harsh conditions of work. This search sought to know the waste picking’s work in Fortaleza-CE, mainly the support that waste pickings receive from the Government Public Municipal. The search was made in two waste picking’s associations, through interviews with these professionals, using a questionnaire. Before the interviews, this search had to be approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Assis Chateaubriand Maternity School. Then, the interviews were made after the signature of a Term of Consent by the waste pickings, consenting to answer the questions of the questionnaire. In the results, was observed that the mainly cause of the waste picking’s labor is the unemployment. Was also seen that the waste pickings have a low schooling: the interviwed don’t have beyond the elementary school. In the associations where the search was made, was seen that, in the Sociedade Comunitária de Reciclagem do Pirambu -SOCRELP, the conditions of work of the waste pickings are milder than the other investigated association. The Associação de Catadores de Recicláveis da Maravilha has a existence only formal, so its waste pickings have to go to the streets to collect recyclable material, suffering all the difficulties of this work, like the prejudice and the physical wear. So, was seen that the support gived by the Municipal Public government is minimal in the two associations, what shows the neglect of the City Hall in relation to the waste pickings, despite their work be favorable to Fortaleza-CE.