In Brazil, Latin America’s largest country in terms of population, the City of Sao Paulo is committed to recycle organics. In 2015, the City embarked on a journey towards separate collection of organics, thus enabling the production of high-quality compost.

Sao Paulo is a metropolitan city with almost 12 million inhabitants. The MSW management practice currently comprises collection, transportation, and final disposal without any pre-treatment into two sanitary landfills with biogas capture. But even with a state of art landfill design, incorporating capture of biogas, substantial amounts of methane will still escape to the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.In 2014, less than 2 per cent of MSW was separately collected and recycled. The potential for organics recycling is there.

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