The treatment of eletronic waste on the national solid waste policy

Authors

  • Maria Carolina de Melo Santos UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE UBERLÂNDIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/2318-8081.16.34

Keywords:

Consumer Society, Law 12.305/10, Shared responsibility, Technological waste.

Abstract

It is public knowledge that technological advances in the past decades have led to an exponential increase in the consume of electronics equipment. In fact, the very act of consuming has taken on a new meaning in post-modern society, establishing a different widespread and widely adopted standard of living. The result of these changes took place in the progressive accumulation of so-called e-waste. In the light of the above, it sought to question in which evolutionary stage the Brazilian environmental legislation is in relation to the management of this new type of waste. The justification for such concern rests not only in the fact of technological waste present peculiar characteristics different of other types of waste, but also - and mainly - because it is widely consumed and discarded today. Generally speaking, one can say that the Brazilian legal system has developed in recent times legislation to draw principles, objectives and guidelines for the environmentally sound management and handling of various types of solid waste, including the waste electrical and electronic equipment - WEEE. Thus, was constituted objective of this study to observe the rules and regulations concerning the management of this type of waste. For this, it was analyzed the Law 12.305/10, especially with regard to the institution of shared responsibility and reverse logistics system. The preparation of this work was through the deductive method and the research were made in doctrines, periodicals, case law and other relevant sources to the subject.

Author Biography

Maria Carolina de Melo Santos, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE UBERLÂNDIA

Mestranda em Direito Pela UNiversidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU.Graduada em direito pelo Centro Universitário de Patos de Minas - UNIPAM (2011). Pós-graduada em Direito Previdenciário pela UNIDERP-ANHANGUERA (2013). Advogada inscrita nos quadros da OAB/MG desde março de 2012.

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Published

2016-11-16

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016)

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