Recolección y venta de botellas plásticas e impacto socio-económico en recicladores de base del barrio Brisas del Mar

Abstract

The purpose of this research work was to establish the socioeconomic impact generated by the collection and sale of plastic bottles in the basic recyclers that carry out the activity in the socioeconomic context of the Brisas del Mar neighborhood of the city of Machala, because Currently, a large number of people as a result of the high level of poverty in the country, as well as the absence of sources of profitable formal employment, has generated new ways to solve the family basket; So the recycling of plastic bottles for sale, has been contributing to the generation of minimum economic income that allows them to cover small food and clothing expenses. At a specific level, the objectives were oriented to determine the social and economic perception of the basic recycler, with respect to the activity performed, seeking to establish the level of economic income that people immersed in the activity of recycling plastic bottles receive, to finally identify the factors that affect the preference of the base recycler for the collection of plastic bottles, characterizing the types of occupational hazards to which people immersed in the work of recycling basic plastic bottles are exposed. Recycling is the process by which every material and object that is discarded is used to give it a new form of utility, which is of great importance since reducing as much waste as possible prevents environmental pollution considerably; On the other hand, the collection is understood as the action of collecting and / or recovering those wastes that are considered as garbage for the common population, which are then used as raw material in the development of new goods or elements for the well-being of being human. The base recycler is that person who performs the function of collecting, recovering and marketing recyclable waste, that is, they live from the recycling activity that allows them to generate their own income according to the material they collect and sell, for which they must travel several City streets in search of the material that citizens discard.