The Federal Government enacted a new regulatory framework for the Brazilian National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS, in the Portuguese acronym), aimed at improving its implementation. Additionally, the National Program on Reverse Logistics was established.
The Federal Government, through Decree n.º 10.936/2022, enacted a new regulatory framework for the Brazilian National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS, in the Portuguese acronym), provided by Law n.º 12.305/2010. It is designed to improve the implementation of the PNRS, applicable to any company or natural person directly or indirectly responsible for producing solid waste, as well as to those responsible for managing solid waste (article 2).
The new decree also established the National Program on Reverse Logistics, as a means to optimize, expand, and integrate the reverse logistics systems (article 12), i.e., the group of initiatives, procedures, and means that enable solid waste collection, restitution, and repurposing in their production cycles or in other environmentally adequate disposal systems (article 13). Specific provisions apply to producers, importers, and distributors of electronics, batteries, pesticides and their packaging, lubricating oils and their packaging, and other products.
According to the Ministry of Environment, the decree simplified the implementation of waste management plans by micro and small enterprises (see articles 63 to 67), and by municipalities with less than 20 thousand inhabitants (see article 52), which accounts for 70% of Brazilian municipalities. The new regulatory framework revoked three decrees that previously regulated the PNRS (article 91).
