O lugar do catador nas políticas públicas de gestão de resíduos sólidos

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the process of reframing experienced by groups of recyclable material collectors, as well as to characterize the main public policies aimed at inclusion of this category of workers, which in 2002 had entered his office in the Register of Occupations of the Brazilian Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE). This process represents a victory for the movement of recyclable material collectors, which seeks gradually move away from the stigma associated with garbage and build a new identity as "environmental agents". Investigates to what extent this reframing, the result of the political organization of recyclable material collectors, has contributed to their representation in the state sphere reflecting the construction of specific public policies for the category. It is considered that, through a strategy of environmentalization the speech itself, the collectors won an important sphere of political representation. However, it may question also the risks associated with such a strategy, in that the speech adopted by the motion can combine to a utilitarian rationality about the environment.