Empreendedorismo social e desenvolvimento sustentável

The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between social entrepreneurship and sustainable development in the sense of building educational alternatives with solid waste recycling cooperatives. For this purpose, the exploratory methodology of qualitative nature was adopted, based on direct and highlighted semi-structured indication. The results point to the importance of adopting specific procedures to educate for cooperativism tomeet the needs of the present without compromising the well-beingof future generations and, at the same time, favoring the social inclusion of people in vulnerable situations.