The progress of humanity and the encouragement of increased consumerism have generated the supply and mass consumption products. A greater extent, so does the production of waste in the world, together with the scarcity of non-renewable resources in the long term, climate change, have diverted attention to environmentally sustainable practices involving waste management. In this context, the Management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), translates into a complex process that requires multidisciplinary views, working from the logistics in the process of collection, storage and disposal of waste to the Biology, Chemistry and Thermodynamics, given the diversity of techniques and technologies available for your treatment and recovery in the market. Social development is also an important point, since in countries like Brazil recycling is an activity that generates resources for social classes with lower purchasing power. In addition to operating in the production of consumer goods from waste, much of the recyclable materials back to the market due to the work of sorters, people with very low income, who are in this profession a form of survival. These factors are relevant to the implementation of any management system, which requires significant investment and participation of the public authorities, both legislative and executive. Developed countries, such as members of the European Union (EU), are far ahead in MSW Management, seeking ways of dealing with their waste less and less impactful to the environment. Brazil still is a more technical phase and less practical than the EU, but has important advances. In 2010, entered into force on National Solid Waste Policy (NSWP), established by Law 12.305. This Policy establishes strategies and deadlines for the Brazilian sustainable development, reviews the hierarchy of priorities in waste treatment and imposes the reverse logistics system, and treat life-cycle of products and encourage the reuse, recycling of materials and composting waste, eliminating the dumps and leaving foster landfilling, lagging only this waste without a more favorable allocation to the environment and saving resources.