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sustainability & ethics
Reverse Logistics: includes a set of actions that enable
the collection and the restitution of the solid residues to
the productive sector, to reuse, in its own cycle or other
productive cycles.
Recycling: Process of transforming solid residues with
no alteration of their physical, physicochemical or
biological properties, for subsequent use as inputs or
new products.
Shared Responsibility During the Life Cycle of Products:
a set of individual attributions for manufacturers,
importers, suppliers and traders, consumers and urban
cleaning public service agents, to minimize the volumes
and impacts of solid waste generation.
From the National Policy of Solid Waste (T-II)
In the second part, the principles from which the
policy was established are clarified: the principles of
prevention and precaution, polluter payer, protector-
receiver and shared responsibility.
For the protection of the public health and the
environmental quality, the NPSW proposes an integrated
management of different sectors, with a strong incentive
to reduce waste at its source and to encourage recycling
chains. The policy proposes the inclusion of street
collectors of reusable and recyclable materials in the
collecting chain of post-consumer materials.
The National System of Information on Solid Waste
Management (Sinir) and the National System of
Information on Basic Sanitation (Sinisa) are important
instruments for policy management.
Policies applicable to Solid Waste (T-III)
The NPSW suggests that the following priority order
in solid waste management should be followed: non-
generation, reduction, reuse, recycling, solid waste
treatment and adequate environmental final waste
disposal. The use of technologies for energy recovering
from solid waste can be an option when associated with
a program to monitor toxic gas emission approved by
the environmental agency.
The policy establishes that “Solid Waste Management
Plans” have to be elaborated at national, state, micro-
regional, metropolitan regions or urban agglomerations,
intercity and municipal levels by all stakeholders
involved. Any plan must have the following minimal
requirements:
• Initial diagnosis of the solid waste situation.
• Targets for reduction, reuse, recycling, energy
recovery, elimination and recuperation of landfills,
with include those who gain a livelihood collection
and separation waste.
• Programs, projects and actions to achieve the
predicted targets.
• Standards and policies for the final disposal of
refuse and residues.
• Means to be used for control and supervision of the
proposed programs.
The elaboration of the plans is a condition for obtaining
access to federal funding.
Lead by the principle of shared responsibility, the NPSR
states that:
The packages material manufacturers, final packages,
companies that condition their products in packages as
well as importers and suppliers, have the responsibility to:
• Place packages in the market which have optimized
weight and volume for containing protection and
product commercialization.
• Place in the market products which, after use by the
consumer are able to be reused, recycled or another
form of adequate environmental disposal and which
fabrication and use produce the as little amount of
solid residues as possible.
• Publish the information related to the ways of
avoiding, recycling and eliminating the solid residues
associated to their respective products.