Lecture Title: "Trash No One Sees: Transforming Waste into Urban Dignity and Opportunity – How Smart Solid Waste Management Reduces Inequalities and Builds Just Cities" Theme: The lecture addresses smart urban solid waste management as a strategic tool for reducing social inequalities, promoting productive inclusion, and advancing socio-environmental justice. The focus is on waste pickers and the most vulnerable populations living and working around the waste chain, proposing sustainable and inclusive solutions. Focus: Highlighting the social and economic role of solid waste management. Valuing the work of waste pickers and integrate them into public policies. Showing how waste policies can generate employment, income, and inclusion. Presenting successful experiences from cooperatives, reverse logistics, and environmental education. Format: Mode: Virtual Duration: 2 hours Structure: Opening with urban contextualization Main presentation with data, public policies, and best practices Q&A and audience interaction Approach: Critical and solution-oriented, integrating technical, social, and human aspects. Intersecting environment, decent work, and urban justice. Use of data, case studies, and local experiences to inspire feasible solutions. Education for citizenship and strengthening collective awareness about everyone’s role in the waste chain.