Waste Collectors:
Modern Waste Management
"In Brazil, as in other countries, the system for recycling varies from city to city: some municipalities collect recyclables from recycling containers scattered at public places ( a kind of drop-off system) and some have door-to-door collection of recyclables (separate from waste to be taken to the landfills) and taking recyclables to cooperatives of waste pickers for further sorting and commercialization. In Brazil, in 2007, the Basic Sanitation Law # 11.445/07 altered the Public Administration Bid and Contract Law (Lei de Licitações e Contratos da Administração Pública), allowing the hiring of waste picker organizations without bid for service provision in municipal recycling schemes."
-- Sonia Dias, consultant of the Ministry ofthe Cities and member of the coordination team of the Waste and Citizenship Forum of Minas Gerais State
Read summary of the 2007 Basic Sanitation Law