Challenges and Proposals to Improve Waste Management in the Rocinha Favela

Solid waste management (SWM) is recognized worldwide as an important issue to deal with in pursuing liveability. In Rocinha, services coverage is lacking and unsatisfying in many sectors, including SWM, influenced by many challenges: high population density, lack of space and narrow streets, residents struggling with low incomes. In this part of the research, we investigate the reasons for this inadequacy. Waste flows have been analysed, the SWM system in Rocinha described, and an assessment on stakeholders and initiatives done. These steps help in defining properly the context, which gave us the tools to elaborate and suggest a new proposal for waste management, providing also a strategy for its implementation.