Apresentação realizada na feira RWM Brasil, 2013.

1. The Role of the Private Sector: Shared
Responsibility and Reverse Logistics
CERSOL – Multidisciplinary Centre for Solid Waste Studies
Patrícia Iglecias
RWM, Brazil (2013)

2. SETTING THE SCENE
Brazil
Population: 201.032.714 (IBGE, 2013)
Solid Waste:
62.7 million tonnes (Abrelpe, 2012)
Inadequate disposal of waste: 42%
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3. WASTE INVENTORY – SAO PAULO STATE
Year
Total Number of
Cities
Adequate Solid
Waste Landfill
1997
645
27 (4.2%)
2011
645
422 (65.4%)
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4. SOLID WASTE LANDFILL QUALITY INDEX, SAO PAULO STATE
1997
Inadequate
2011
Controlled
Adequate
SOURCE: CETESB
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5. LEGAL FRAMEWORK
1. National Solid Waste Policy (Federal Law No.
12.305/2010)
• Main legal framework at national level
» Federal vis-a-vis state and municipal
regulations
2. Newness and complexity  lack/a small handful of
legal studies
• Importance of foreign experience (i.e.
comparative analysis) – European Union
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6. WASTE LAW AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS FIELDS OF LAW
•
Consumer protection: consumer rights and duties
»
Information is required (Provide information on waste
prevention, recycling and elimination)
»
Eco-friendly products
•
Dangerous substances and product policies
•
Contaminated land
•
Competition law, tax law etc.
•
Waste prevention (Eco-design, eco-efficiency, disaster
prevention)
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7. WASTE LAW: AGENDA
•
Shared responsibility for product life cycle (European
Extended Product Responsibility)
•
“Post-consumption responsibility”
•
Who is responsible…?
» Manufacturers and importers
» Distributors and sellers
» Consumers
» Public cleaning service (Government)
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8. SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
Product lifecycle:
– Development
– Manufacturing
– Consumption
– Final destination
– Final disposal
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9. MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS
Trading
procedures
Used
products
Used
packaging
Stations for the
voluntary
delivery
Used
packaging
Recyclable
materials
Partnerships
with collector’s
cooperatives
(pickers)
Recyclable
materials
Selective
Collection
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10. DISTRIBUTORS AND SELLERS
Returning of used products and
used packaging to manufacturers
and importers.
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11. CONSUMERS
Returning of the used
products and
packaging
Separation of the dry
waste for the selective
collection
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12. SOCIAL ASPECTS
• Collector’s
cooperatives
• Priority
• Qualification
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13. PRODUCTS AND REVERSE LOGISTICS
• Pesticides, its waste and packaging
• Products which the packaging are hazardous
waste
• Batteries
• Tyres
• Lubricants including all packaging
• Fluorescent bulbs
• Electronic products
• Packaging
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14. PROPOSED MODEL IN PACKAGING
• Delivery points
• Collector’s cooperatives (pickers)
• Goals: reduction in 22% (quantity of
the dry part of the waste in landfills)
in 3 years
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15. IMPLEMENTATION
• Sectors agreement – public edits from
Ministry of the Environment
• Decree (imposed regulation)
• Terms of commitments
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16. GOALS
• Proporcionality with the products placed
on the market
• Established in the implementation
instrument
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17. SYNTHESIS OF IDEAS
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Sustainable production and consumption
Education for consumption
Waste minimisation
Participative management and collective
appropriation of the environment
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18. • Ecological crisis is also
a crisis of human values
and ethics in all its
dimensions. It brings
on new thoughts, new
conflicts, new
possibilities, new
solutions and new
behaviors as far as the
planet is concerned.
GENOVEVA CHAGAS
DE AZEVEDO
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19. Thank you!
Associate Professor of Faculty of Law – University of Sao Paulo
Partner at Viseu Law Firm
Environmental Lawyer
patricia.iglecias@viseu.com.br
Rua Funchal, 263 - 10º andar - São Paulo/SP – CEP: 04551-060
(+55 11) 3514 1400 – www.viseu.com.br
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