Brazilian Waste Management: Belo Horizonte's Case Study of Sustainable Management

This study is part of a PhD research and aims to present one Brazilian case study of waste management, the process of waste management plan elaboration in Belo Horizonte city Brazil, and the sustainable actions that this city has, wich is considered reference about waste management in Brazil. The process of waste management plan in this city started in 2014, and in 2016 is in the last stage. Three groups are important to this process. The first one is the technical group, constituted by urban oversight of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The second is the steering committee, formed by representatives of the executive power organs. The last one is the consulting board, that includes political bodies for social participation, representatives of the public sector municipal and from the state, and the organized civil society as well, contemplating the popular segments, technical / academic, and from the companies too. Papers of Scopus and Science Direct were consulted as well to compare this brazilian case with european cases.