ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the transfer of this management knowledge to the domain of solid waste resources. The informal and organized recycling sector is still mostly excluded from official waste management programmes despite the large number of people working in informal recycling. Waste management collection and deposit operations are paid by tonnage of waste collected and deposited or incinerated. As a consequence these enterprises are not concerned with waste reduction or recycling. Over time, the scope and level of dependency of the people involved in this activity has changed. Recycling has always been a livelihood strategy for the most impoverished and excluded in absence of a social security system. Recycling is not the ultimate environmental solution. Recycling can be an opportunity for generating and redistributing income. Organized recycling embodies the possibility for recovering citizenship.
