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

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: de Barros Pimenta, Aline | Santos, Sueli Maria dos Reis | de Jesus, Maria Cristina Pinto | Borges, Marcos Mantins | de Oliveira Marques, Geraldo Luciano | Abdalla, e José Gustavo Francis

Affiliations: An Architect and Urban Planner, Master Student in Built Environment by the Graduate Program in Built Environment (ProAC)of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, [email protected], Minas Gerais, Brazil | Nurse, Doctor, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Nursing at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, [email protected], [email protected], Minas Gerais, Brazil | An Architect and Urban Planner, Doctor, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, [email protected], Minas Gerais, Brazil | Civil Engineer, Doctor, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, [email protected], Minas Gerais, Brazil | An Architect and Urban Planner, Doctor, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, [email protected], Minas Gerais, Brazil

Keywords: Quality of life, Scavengers, Municipal Solid Waste, Research

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0918-5681

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5681-5683, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

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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