Marcos Fernandes de Oliveira*, Bruno de Oliveira Costa Couto, Edio Damasio da Silva Junior, Rebeca Martins de Silva Fernandes de Oliveira, Raquel Martins da Silva Fernandes de Oliveira
When debating solid waste and its management through effective public policies, it is not possible without dissociating oneself from socioeconomic growth, intra and intergenerational equity, as well as environmental issues such as sustainability and responsibility. In view of the above, the purpose of this study is based on a narrative bibliographic study of some existing and applied public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean for the management of urban solid waste, its proven efficiency in increasing the recycling rate through these policies. The exploratory research was carried out in the database of the Elsevier bookstore, Scopus, using the Boolean operators “solid waste and management and sustainability and public policies” with year of publication filters from 2018 to 2023. Effective policies and use of appropriate techniques, although with low population adherence, they were reported in the European Union, although with low representativeness, recycling rate still below the goals committed in the COPs, in the USA, internal programs based on support legislation in each state of the federation and federal incentives make the sector promising energy reuse of bio-inputs, In Latin America and the Caribbean, renewable and clean energy programs have yielded good results with the support of international investment partners in the quest to mitigate greenhouse gases, waste management has found growth in Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, still persisting the use of landfills and low rates of selective collection, The African continent has suffered from the lack of basic sanitation, solid waste management, Asia has a good technological structure for waste treatment mainly plastics, although some techniques used bring relevant public health problems.
Published Date: 2025-02-19; Received Date: 2023-12-20
