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Brazil National Solid Waste Policy Glossary

Brazil solid-waste definitions covering reverse logistics, product life cycle, solid waste, and shared responsibility for product life cycle. Portuguese legal text remains authoritative; English translations are Minespider draft translations for readability.

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High-level summary

Brazil solid-waste definitions covering reverse logistics, product life cycle, solid waste, and shared responsibility for product life cycle. Portuguese legal text remains authoritative; English translations are Minespider draft translations for readability.

This source matters because Brazil’s reverse-logistics and solid-waste vocabulary is central to return-flow and circularity workflows. It provides a Brazil-specific source layer that should be compared with, not collapsed into, EU battery-passport, India EPR, or Australian product-stewardship language.

Who it affects

  • Companies designing Brazil-facing reverse-logistics or waste-management workflows
  • Battery and product teams connecting return flows to compliance evidence
  • Cross-jurisdiction teams comparing EPR, stewardship, and reverse-logistics terminology

Key defined terms

A short curated set of terms to help readers orient themselves before moving into the full regulation-specific glossary.

reverse logistics

A Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for returning solid waste to the business sector for reuse, production cycles, or environmentally appropriate final destination.

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recycling

A material-recovery term for reprocessing waste materials into products, materials, or substances, kept separate from re-use and other end-of-life steps.

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re-use

A circularity term for keeping a product, component, battery, or material in use rather than sending it straight to recycling or disposal.

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waste management

An umbrella term for the organized collection, transport, treatment, recovery, recycling, disposal, and supervision of waste.

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solid waste

A Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for discarded materials, objects, goods, contained gases, and certain liquids that require final destination handling.

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