| Ano | 2018 |
| Cidade de Apresentação | Atenas |
| Descricão e Informacões Adicionais | Nowadays, it is assumed that the recycling or prevention of high production of electronic waste is a necessary thing to do. However, there are still some questions about how to do it and who should do it. In this way, this article analyzes one of the main means of doing so: the Producer of Extended Responsibility (EPR). In analyzing the EPR, it is assumed that the liability is the majority for the producer for some reason. This article also brings an economic approach to EPR so that producer responsibility is profitable for it and hence applicable. In addition, the concept of circular economy, its benefits, successes, and failures is used both to support the EPR and to analyze laws in Brazil and the United States, making a comparison and drawing some conclusions, advising and lessons. The selection of Brazil and the United States is important because, in the first case, there is the largest producer of electronic waste in South America, the second because it is the largest consumer of consumer electronics in the world. In the US case, the country produced about 16.9% of all global electronic waste (in 2014), EPR laws work better than in the first case, however, they still have a considerable lack of efficiency in some aspects. In Brazil there are not even precise numbers on the total of recycled electronic waste, although for comparison purposes, the country only recycled 3% of the total solid waste, and therefore the actual total values are expected to be correspondingly small. In the United States, the same number is 25% (in the year 2012). These data consider both waste from EPR systems or not. In the Brazilian case, this inefficiency may be related mainly to a National Waste Policy that was not fully implemented, low consumer awareness regarding |
| Descricão e Informacões Adicionais(en) | Nowadays, it is assumed that the recycling or prevention of high production of electronic waste is a necessary thing to do. However, there are still some questions about how to do it and who should do it. In this way, this article analyzes one of the main means of doing so: the Producer of Extended Responsibility (EPR). In analyzing the EPR, it is assumed that the liability is the majority for the producer for some reason. This article also brings an economic approach to EPR so that producer responsibility is profitable for it and hence applicable. In addition, the concept of circular economy, its benefits, successes, and failures is used both to support the EPR and to analyze laws in Brazil and the United States, making a comparison and drawing some conclusions, advising and lessons. The selection of Brazil and the United States is important because, in the first case, there is the largest producer of electronic waste in South America, the second because it is the largest consumer of consumer electronics in the world. In the US case, the country produced about 16.9% of all global electronic waste (in 2014), EPR laws work better than in the first case, however, they still have a considerable lack of efficiency in some aspects. In Brazil there are not even precise numbers on the total of recycled electronic waste, although for comparison purposes, the country only recycled 3% of the total solid waste, and therefore the actual total values are expected to be correspondingly small. In the United States, the same number is 25% (in the year 2012). These data consider both waste from EPR systems or not. In the Brazilian case, this inefficiency may be related mainly to a National Waste Policy that was not fully implemented, low consumer awareness regarding |
| Divulgação Científica | NAO |
| Idioma | Inglês |
| Instituição Promotora | Athens Institute for Education and Research |
| Local da Apresentação | Grécia |
| Natureza | SIMPOSIO |
| Nome do Evento | 14th Annual International Symposium on Environment |
| País | Grécia |
| Relevância | NAO |
| Título | EPR for e-waste efficiency in Brazil and USA: a comparative analysis |
| Título(en) | EPR for e-waste efficiency in Brazil and USA: a comparative analysis |
