important to develop mechanisms to improve the co-operation between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Environmental Protection, with the object of developing and implementing environmental education programs. This is important in order to make the general society more conscious about the implications and causes of SW production and to put pressure on the different levels of government to deliver coherent policies. The success or failure of the actions
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to be taken depends on an informed society, which is conscious of environmental problems. Government should, through the application of legislation and economic stimuli, promote programs that focus on limiting the production of SW and foster those industrial processes that promote the reutilization and recycling of materials.