Economic Viability for a Large-Scale Model of Municipal Solid Waste Treatment in the Most Important Brazilian Economic Region

Abstract

Despite the National Policy for Solid Waste (PNRS) in 2010, nothing has changed to the waste disposal in Brazil. Planned to reach 100% of all Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) collected and treated in landfills by Aug. 2 nd, 2014, until nowadays, 42% of this total remains in dumps. Even the most important national economic region treating its urban waste in landfills, what it has is no more than 4% of recycling and its landfills reaching the exhaustion.