Diagnosis of the women waste collectors from the Tabatinga City in Amazon

The municipality of Tabatinga, distant one thousand and one hundred kilometers from the capital of the state of Amazon, suffers decades of lack of employment. In addition to this problem, the city does not yet have an adequate management system for its solid waste, recyclable materials to ensure their livelihood. Among these collectors were selected eighteen women with the purpose of discovering the work situation of each one of them, as well as social issues of the same. This work aimed to understand the life of the collectors with more scope, outside the limits of the municipal trash, to build a situational chart that can support governmental intervention measures. For that, semi-structured interviews were used "in loco" in addition to a wide and diversified bibliographical research.