Pontos de entrega voluntária (PEVs): contribuições para as Cooperativas de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Salvador

Abstract

This research is the result of the walk of a collector of recyclable materials from the city of Salvador and a socio-environmental activist in his construction as a researcher who, through bridges, exchanges of knowledge, a lot of effort and dedication, joined the master's degree with the desire to contribute even more with the development of the work of the Recyclable Material Collectors' Cooperatives (CCMR). The general objective of this research is to investigate the contribution of Voluntary Delivery Points (PEVs) to the CCMR of Salvador, and its specific objectives are descriptive, through a narrative review of literature and qualiquantitative, investigative and exploratory nature, through questionnaires and semies- tructured interviews. Therefore, we sought to interrelate the findings and verify the contributions of the PEVs to these enterprises based on the opinion of the managers of Cooperes and Cooperlix, cooperatives there are partners of the Selective Collection Program (PCS) of Salvador. It is important to highlight that, during the execution of this research, adjustments and changes were made in the objectives defined, from the exchanges with colleagues and professors during the classes, and from the meetings in the Gamdes/UCSAL research group, which made it possible to improve the trajectory of this study. Thus, two chapters are presented in this master's thesis represented by two scientific articles: the first one aimed at investigating how citizens' actions, existing standards and public equipment made available by the State for the disposal of solid waste contribute to the strengthening of the work of CCMR, aiming to propose a new flowchart of the PCS of Salvador, to contribute to improving the work of these enterprises; the second article is a study to identify the contributions of the PEVs to the CCMR of Salvador based on the opinion of the managers of two enterprises that receive the materials of these PEVs.