These results must be considered as a basic framework that can orient the decision-making process or the implementation of environmental policies in the short-term. Other aspects that will become more important in the long-term must be taken into consideration in further research, such as environmental impacts or public acceptance of MSW processing technologies as well as the incorporation of incentives for recycling and sorting of organic fractions of the MSW, tax-cuts for recovered methane for use as a transportation fuel and the impact of these efforts in the strategy of using the MSW as an alternative source of energy.