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In the metropolitan area of Lima/Callao, the collection and elimination of waste are made difficult by the absence of an urban territory authority. Wastes produce health and environmental risks. Analysis of waste management from the perspective of vulnerability, allows observing the production of spaces by the waste management, as well as of spatial logic of waste transfer, and thus vulnerability transfer, between territories and between populations. These transfers of vulnerability are markers of ecological inequalities. Thus, the poorest people who are very important in the elimination of waste by their recycling activity are the most exposed to the risks produced by these wastes. As a consquence, the reduction of waste management vulnerability is carried out through the concentration of the vulnerability territories and very localized populations.