Proposal of Social Indicators to Assess the Social Performance of Waste Management Systems in Developing Countries: A Brazilian Case Study

The Brazilian National Solid Waste Policy Law promotes sustainable integrated solid waste management nationally, and is committed to improve “informal” recyclable waste pickers’ socio-economic conditions. This has led municipalities to develop waste management strategies to incorporate “informal” waste pickers into the “formal” system. In order to measure the social improvement achieved by this action, it is necessary to define a set of indicators capable of quantifying the social performance of waste management systems that adapt specifically to developing countries.