1. What is Jardim Gramacho? Where is it located?
Jardim Gramacho Gardens is located in the north edge of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay.
2. What are catadores? What has their contribution to Jardim Gramacho been?
These catadores lived and worked in the garbage, collecting and selling scrap metal and recyclable materials. They established a squatter community (the favela of Jardim Gramacho) surrounding the landfill,
3. How many catadores live in Jardim Gramacho?
Today roughly 3,000 catadores work on the landfill.
although only 1,752 are officially registered) removing 200 tons of recyclable materials each day
4. How has the catadores job been formalized by the government? When does it end? What effect could this have?
they granted licenses and if it ended the world would live in dump.
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