Environmental Policy of Solid Urban Waste and the Socio-Environmental Impacts in Baturité, Ceará, Brazil

The research had as its primary objective to understand, from the socio-environmental perspective, the limits, and possibilities of the dynamics of solid urban waste treatment in the municipality. Methodologically, this research study is an exploratory case study, of a basic nature with a qualitative approach. For data collection the techniques of direct observation and non-directive interview were applied to collectors/ dwellers of the municipal dump of Baturité-CE. As for the analysis techniques, content analysis and socio-historical contextual narrative discourse were used. As conclusive results, the study found that the collectors / residents live in a situation of socio-economic and environmental vulnerability, without having a collective organization to support them, including the absence of municipal government in relation to support these professional collectors of urban solid waste in general and in the locus of the research, specifically.