CHALLENGING THE BRAZILIAN URBAN SOLID WASTE POLICY WITH A MINIMUM RECYCLING RATE FOR DISPOSABLES

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.84819140316

• Palavras-chave: atena

• Keywords: national policy for solid waste, municipal solid waste, recycling, disposable, apparent consumption.

• Abstract:

  Launched in 2010, the PNRS

  (National Policy for Solid Waste) No.12,305/10

  came to guide the solid residues management

  in Brazil. It represents a huge advance on

  reducing environmental impacts due to a large

  amount of waste produced daily.

  With seven directives and 84 strategies,

  the policy requires from governments the

  establishment of favorable conditions to promote

  the reduction of consumption, reverse logistics,

  recycling and the usage of landfills as a suitable

  final disposal way to the waste generated in

  the cities. It criminalizes practices opposed to

  the recommend ones with heavy fines but also

  claims for tax and financial incentives to the

  companies willing to develop environmental

  management systems focused on using better

  practices of production and residues recovering.

  The public sector is demanded to elaborate its

  solid public plan but ever under social control

  over planning and implementation phases. Both,

  public and private sectors, must cooperate to

  create alternatives of businesses to add value,

  income and job positions with cooperatives and

  associations of collectors considering subsidies

  if necessary.

  But what’s going wrong since 2010? Is the

  policy enough and complete to attend Brazilian

  needs?

  This article comes to answer what’s going on,

  and to propose some improvements from the

  perspective of best practices presented by the

  author. Everything is changing all the time and

  everywhere and it’s recommended to revisit the

  policy to check the planned versus delivered

  and how efficient they were.

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