O Legado de Gramacho: a Miséria sob o manto da invisibilidade e o papel da Educação Ambiental para o enfrentamento dessa crise

Abstract

In the socio-environmental moment that we live with the absence of specific public policies aimed at the collectors of recyclable materials, it is essential to analyze the implications arising from the deactivation of the Jardim Gramacho Metropolitan Landfill (AMJG). Pointed out as one of the environmental achievements of the Olympic Games, the closing of the AMJG brought a series of promises aimed at the recovery of the mangrove area, the revitalization of the neighborhood, selective collection, professional qualification of thousands of collectors and Environmental Education. Given this context, the general objective of this dissertation was to analyze orally the impacts of the closing of Jardim Gramacho Landfill and its perceived consequences by the collectors who survived and still survive the sale of recyclable materials. The narratives of collectors of recyclable materials, built from interviews based on oral history, which is a methodology of dialogue, enhanced the memory work of these subjects who suffered and still suffer the consequences of unsustainable development. This research has a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory approach, whose data collection used data triangulation via document analysis, interviews and participant observation. In this territory of social struggles and survival space, over the years there has been not only the receipt of waste of various natures, but the spread of misery and poverty. It is with this understanding that throughout this dissertation is discussed and problematized the issue, therefore, of inequality and poverty that "pushed" men and women to the AMJG. From this, therefore, this research is justified due to the need to empower the empowerment of individuals and groups that are largely forgotten by public and official history, bringing out perspectives on the multiple discourses of these stories and the contradictions that they guide the conflicts between the landfill universe, the (dis) interests of public management and society. The assumption is that only by ensuring that those excluded from the system have a voice can a critical reflection of these spaces be initiated.