As redes de produção da reciclagem no estado do Rio de Janeiro: circuitos espaciais e os desafios dos catadores de materiais recicláveis

Abstract

This tesis is part of the discussion about the importance of the work of collecting recyclable materials, since one of the biggest problems facing the world today concerns the generation, management and disposal of solid waste produced in various activities performed by man. The research, quantitative and qualitative, aims to reflect on the importance of the recycling production network and the work of collection in this scenario, also relating it empirically with the actors and institutions that make up the phenomenon analyzed: the manufacturing industry, middlemen (intermediaries), the State and the collectors of recyclable materials, these being prominent subjects in the research, as protagonists in the network. The objective was to understand how the recycling production network is constituted in the state of Rio de Janeiro and also how the network produces links between the lower and upper circuits of the urban economy. To this end, we seek to understand how to operate the economy of recycling in your network organization, in constant transformation process, building circuits, sometimes cooperative, sometimes conflicting.