The municipal solid waste and the quality of life of collectors of recyclable materials in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.

نویسندگان

  • Aline de Barros Pimenta
  • Sueli Maria dos Reis Santos
  • Maria Cristina Pinto de Jesus
  • Marcos Mantins Borges
  • Geraldo Luciano de Oliveira Marques
  • E José Gustavo Francis Abdalla
چکیده

The generation growing and diversified of Municipal Solid Waste is configured as an environmental problem, economic and social deterioration, especially, by application of inappropriate management of them. Faced with this urban context, the research in development presents as specific objective assessment of the quality of life of the gatherers of recyclable materials were active in the city of Juiz de Fora, in the brazilian state of Minas Gerais. In addition, the objective is, still, the recognition of the activity of sorting performed by "scavengers" in order to maximize the reduction, reuse and recycling energy and material waste daily. The proposed methodology is based on the application of the questionnaire Word Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-100), prepared by the World Health Organization, in order to value the quality of life of the gatherers of recyclable materials, involved, even in educational workshops in order to discuss and organize strategies of health care and scouting to the basement to public policies.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Work

دوره 41 Suppl 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012