From garbage collection to the contract for the provision of selective collection services in the municipality of Nepomuceno, State of Minas Gerais: RECICLANEP’s performance

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Nahara Maria Assunção de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Benedito Anselmo Martins de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de educação popular (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/reveducpop/article/view/56146
• topic: Cooperativas de catadores; Coleta seletiva; Prefeitura Municipal de Nepomuceno; Waste pickers' cooperatives; Selective collect; Nepomuceno City Hall

This experience report aims to describe the entire trajectory of the work of recyclable material collectors in the municipality of Nepomuceno, focusing on the significance of the creation of the RECICLANEP cooperative and the establishment of the contract for the provision of selective collection services between this Cooperative and the municipality for collectors. The methodology for this study was based on the collection of primary data, semi-structured interviews, preparation of a field diary as well as the observations of the researcher, who, since 2012, has been in contact with the group of waste pickers. Social benefits and improvements in working conditions for the group of waste pickers were evidenced, as well as positive perspectives regarding the continuity of the partnership between the city government and the cooperative in the contract for the provision of selective collection services.