This volume of recycled material can be tripled, but for this they are necessary two-way actions: motivating the population to separate the reciclvel of the organic garbage and extending the qualification and the conditions of work of the catadores (collection instruments, have carried and storage, as well as intermediao in the sales of these materials to the industry). The first step of the consolidation of municipal politics of solid residues must leave of a Diagnosis of the Situation of the generated Solid Residues, cotejando these information with the socioeconmicas characteristics of that city. Another aspect to be analyzed is relative to the conditions of life and autonomizao of the population segment that survives of the catao of reciclvel material. Stories and depositions of workers in the catao of you recycle allow to affirm that this occupation appeared of the necessity of complementation of income for people with survival difficulties. ' ' The cardboard catado and resold guarantee the milk of crianas' ' said Pink D. when it counted to be one of the pioneers and that it was in this work since the decade of 40. At a first moment, these men and women acted individually, without exchange with its pairs and were submitted the proprietors of the scrap iron deposits that not only bought what they got, but defined the value to pay e, in some situations they supplied a wagon and same they allowed it spends the night in the way it collected garbage. It was in the decade of 70 that these workers had started to argue in group its difficulties for the lack of the work instrument, for the unreliability in virtue of the lack of local insurance to keep to the wagon main instrument of work and for having that to submit the owners of the deposits. It was difficult to accept that the price of the cardboard diminua when the value of this product in the market falls, but that it did not increase when the market if heated, generating each time more value for the Capital.