Aline Sousa, the Brazilian waste picker who put Lula in the presidential band: “Recycling has race and gender”

In a recycling plant in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, the face of a black woman decorates the wall of the plastic separation area. It is Maria Carolina de Jesús, author of Cuarto de Despejo, a newspaper in which she related her routine as a garbage collector in the streets of São Paulo of the fifties. The book was the most sold in the country for months and became a portrait of the misery, the abandonment of the state and the intellectual capacit…

Governor Jerônimo Rodrigues hosted a group of recyclable material collectors for lunch on Thursday (3), his birthday, at his official residence in the Palácio de Ondina. During the meeting, which was attended by the First Lady, Professor Tatiana Velloso, the President of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia (Alba), Ivana Bastos, and State Secretaries, the governor signed a message sending the Bill on the State Policy for Payment for Environmental S…