A dinâmica das catadoras que trabalham no lixão do município de Cuité - PB.

Abstract

Waste is considered one of the major social and environmental problems in Brazil. Units of disposal of waste without any type of control are the working conditions of a portion of the population increasingly growing and little recognized the pickers. This study aimed to understand the dynamics of the city dump of Cuité-PB. But also know the profile of collectors and his work routine identify the main difficulties encountered in collection time, meet the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the waste. We performed an ethnographic research, which enables a direct relationship between the researcher and the researched space for it. Our results were described in narrative trying to describe the places, people, situations experienced and observed, people's attitudes in the everyday, the statements collected through interviews and testimonials.