Centro educacional de reciclagem no Bairro do Guarapes - Natal/RN

Abstract

In 2004, the old garbage dump in Natal – the capital of Rio Grande do Norte –, located in the Guarapes neighborhood, popularly known as the “New City dump”. Thus, there is the transfer of the destination of solid waste generated by the residents to the sanitary landfill in the Metropolitan Region of Natal - RMN, specifically in the municipality of Ceará-Mirim With the deactivation of the "garbage of Cidade Nova", part of the garbage collectors who complemented the family income through the collection of recyclable and/or reusable materials, in a precarious way and lacking job security, gathered to form cooperatives through the Solid Waste Processing Association. The cooperatives acquired permission to install themselves in the former dump site, with the collaboration of the Government, which provided sheds and trucks, and established partnerships with the National Health Foundation – FUNASA. In 2009, at the incentive of the government, the former associations merged into two cooperatives, the Cooperative of Recyclable Material Collectors of the City of Natal/RN - COOPCICLA - and the Cooperative of Recyclable Material and Solid Waste Collectors of the Metropolitan Region of Natal /RN - COOCAMAR. Both are currently active and are responsible for all NMR waste collection. To achieve these goals, interviews were carried out with Edvanilson Fernandes, president of COOPCICLA, and Raquel Silveira, professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, who develops research on social movements in the production of public policies and their relationship with the state and in the Integrated Management of Solid Waste of the RMN, specifically with the cooperatives COOPCICLA and COOCAMAR. Such interviews took place in June 2021, with the aim of complementing the data surveys for the development of the Final Paper for the Architecture and Urban Planning Course regarding the preparation of a project for a teaching center for cooperative members and a building to support to uncooperative waste pickers