The organization of recyclable material collectors cooperatives/associations in addition to income, may mean better working conditions. However, there is still that there are many issues that present themselves as problems ...

Sustainability of waste management practices is a multidimensional challenge faced by authorities worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries, where informal sector plays important role. In Brazil, municipal ...

Recycling is an important process for sustainability and waste picker cooperatives play a fundamental role in this context, as environmental, social and economic aspects converge through the work of the members. The ...

This study aims to investigate selective collection in the city of Lajeado, and it is very important to reuse materials when possible, preventing new raw materials from being extracted from the environment. Seeking to ...

Background Dengue is an arbovirus disease that threatens approximately 200 million people annually worldwide. Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) is anthropophilic mosquito, extremely well adapted to the urban ...

The analysis of waste management practices is a multidimensional challenge faced by authorities, especially in developing countries, where actions are needed to reduce, reuse and increase recycling. Performance indicators ...

With the growth of industrial activities and population, also increases the amount of generated waste which causes environmental problems. In Brazil, a major producer of goods in the agricultural industry, the problems ...

Given the complexity of waste problem nowadays, recycling has gained wide visibilityin social and environmental discussions. The argument is that there are numerous benefits from the recycling activity. Despite that, it ...

The activity of cardboard recycling when correctly planned and organized, offers great possibilities of economic profits for the enterprising agent, beyond social and environmental benefits, as the job creation and economy ...

Construction and demolition waste can contain considerable amounts of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). This paper describes a study of the recycling of PVC pipes collected from such waste materials. In a sorting facility for the ...