Brazil’s California: New Regulations on Producer Responsibility in Sao Paulo
Brazil, like the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Argentina, is one of the big, federated republics in the Americas. Under its brand of federalism, the states in the country have the authority to issue environmental regulations that can be more stringent (but not less) than their national counterpart.
Like the U.S., Brazil has some states that are more industrialized and advanced in regulatory matters than others. In the U.S., California has the reputation for setting the regulatory trends in environmental – and other things – that are followed by the federal authorities. For Brazil, their California would be Sao Paulo – the financial and industrial powerhouse – and those agencies would be the Secretary of the Environment (SMA) and its enforcement branch (CETESB).
Sao Paulo state is a leader in “reverse logistics” – requiring producers, importers, distributors, and merchants of products to take responsibility for their end-of-life goods through management systems that provide for recycling or environmentally-appropriate disposal. The state has imposed this obligation through different mechanisms for several years now.
Sao Paulo’s mandatory producer take-back applies to many products and packaging: electric and electronic products, pesticides, batteries, foods, beverages, used lubricant oils, pharmaceuticals, among others. Several of these product categories are also subject to federal take-back requirements.
Several years ago, Sao Paulo state took the progressive measure to give “teeth” to its mandatory take-back requirements for all those products by tying the need to present a ‘reverse logics’ plan to the facility’s environmental impact permit. Basically, if you could not provide that you as manufacturer, importer, distributor or merchant of covered products did not belong to a “reverse logistics” system in the state of Sao Paulo – well, your facility could not get or renew its environmental permit. And other states have followed suit.
The state just published a new rule that changes some of the provisions. Now, the state seeks to align better with the collection and management targets in the National jSolid Waste Policy (Federal Decree 11.043/2022).
If you are active in Sao Paulo state, take note of the new rule, the new deadlines, and the new targets.
Link to new rule:
https://lnkd.in/gQ2_DDgq
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Chief Operating Officer (COO) Catari Indústria SA
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