Influence of organization of recyclable material collectors in association to improve the health and minimization of social-environmental impacts

• Autor(a) principal: Cavalcante, Lívia Poliana Santana
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Silva, Monica Maria Pereira da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/15010
• topic: Recyclable material collectors; Organization; Health; Catadores de materiais recicláveis; Organização; Saúde

This study aims to evaluate the influence of the organization of recyclable material collectors in Association to improve the health and minimization of environmental impacts in Campina Grande - PB. The participant survey was conducted from August 2010 to November 2011 with 16 recyclable material collectors, eight members and eight that operate informally in Campina Grande-PB. Data were collected through weekly meetings, seminars, semi-structured questionnaires, environmental and economic monitoring of recyclable material collectors and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively and the quantitative spread into categories and subsequently evaluated in statistical methods in excel spreadsheets. We note that the organization of recyclable material collectors favored significantly the health conditions of these workers and their families, minimizing environmental impacts, and favor the selective collection in the group’s action neighborhoods. So there influence on the organization of recyclable material collectors in association to improve the health and minimization of environmental impacts, although at the time of this research the influence perceived expressed small advances, due to the short time of formalization.