The analyses presented in this research represent the result of discussions about sustainability of the production and consume model we have created, highlighting the issues regarding educational practices and policies engendered by the constitution and procedures of the activities of selective collection and recycling. In this study, then, the position-taking and the contradictions that comprise the public means of recycling were sought to be analyzed by considering the reports of the main subjects involved in this process, namely, trash pickers, commercial intermediaries and public administrators. Therefore, the praxis in environmental education was approached by criticizing what seems to be the current emphasis regarding behavioural normatizations.
Public Policies; Environmental Education; Solid Waste Management; Position-taking