Today (August 2), the National Policy on Solid Waste (PNRS) - recently approved by the Brazilian Senate - will receive presidential approval. The ceremony is scheduled to 3h30 p.m., at the Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty), in Brasília. Izabella Teixeira, minister of the Environment, and Silvano Silvério, Secretary for Water Resources and Urban Environment of the MMA, participate in the event.
The policy will be approved after two decades in the Brazilian Congress. It's a historic day in which Brazil will become equal the European Union in relation to legislation concerning the solid waste. "With the approval of the National Policy on Solid Waste, Brazil now has a set of innovative tools for solving the problems of garbage in the country", celebrates minister Izabella.
The law establishing the PNRS defines responsibilities and tools for the management of several types of solid waste, among them, electronic materials, for which there is still no federal law defining how the disposal might happen.
The PNRS is the result of a broad consensus involving all the actors who are part of the many different cycles of production of solid waste. It deals with issues that are already part of daily routine of people, involving concepts such as contaminated area, the product life cycle, selective collection, social control, waste management, recycling, shared responsibility and urban cleaning services.
The new policy aims at the protection of public health and environmental quality, as well as at the adoption, development and improvement of clean technologies to minimize environmental impacts, and at the reduction of the volume of hazardous waste, amongst other actions.
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