On the capitalist societies current scenarium, we have been witnessing new configurations of exclusion and informality phenomena, owing to structural updates of the production organization, which have been causing significant transformations on the employment world. The resulting consequences on the industrious class are expressed by the precariousness and flexibility of the employment proceedings, or even by the unemployment. Surely, the new market demands have been contributing to a process of employeds exclusion from the formal labor activities and, in consequence, to an inclusion grouth of an unemployed huge contingent on informal labor activities, as a way to guarantee their survival. That means, the universe of informality gain breadth an complexity through the various forms and conditions of work that it shelters and with this, it has been constituting itself as an opportune field for proliferation of the new capitalist acumulutation strategies. It is on this perspective that the present dissertation approaches the everyday of the garbage collectors who work on Aterro Metropolitano de Jardim Gramacho. Located on the borough named Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, in which were verified the meanings that those workers attribute to the job they perform.