The article aims to present the precarious labor reality to which are subject the urban garbage collectors in the city of Presidente Prudente/SP, placing greater emphasis to the risks and aggravations to health of workers ...

The association of infantile diarrhoea with the presence of garbage in the environment was investigated in Canabrava, a peripheral neighbourhood of Salvador, northeast of Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted with ...

Garbage bags have been broadly used for collecting household waste in Brazil and worldwide. Many of these bags are made from recycled polymers, and the presence of harmful elements is a matter of concern. In this study, ...

This dissertation aims to analyze how the identity negotiation of garbage workers in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, was produced. In order to do this, we sought to present the meanings that garbage workers elaborated about ...

The present work is a study about the produced garbage in Escola Estadual de Educação Básica Professor Willy Roos, in Agudo-RS. It is founded in bibliographic researches about Environmental Education, solid residues and ...

This paper presents a discussion on the potential use of high tech garbage, including electronic waste (e-waste), as a source of mechanisms, sensors and actuators, that can be adapted to improve the reality of microprocessor ...