Glossary term

environmentally adequate destination

A Brazil battery-waste term for destinations that minimize environmental risks through collection, receipt, reuse, recycling, treatment, or final disposal procedures.

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What does environmentally adequate destination mean?

Environmentally adequate destination gives Brazil’s battery-specific source layer a final-destination concept. The CONAMA Resolution 401/2008 wording covers collection, receipt, reuse, recycling, treatment, or final disposal procedures in line with current environmental legislation. It should be read as Brazil battery-waste terminology rather than as a generic global disposal or recycling label.

Source context

The source is Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008. The Portuguese legal text remains authoritative; the draft English translation is included for readability. The translated wording refers to collection, receipt, reuse, recycling, treatment or final disposal in accordance with current environmental legislation.

Official definitions by source

Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008

CONAMA Resolution No. 401 of 4 November 2008

destinação que minimiza os riscos ao meio ambiente e adota procedimentos técnicos de coleta, recebimento, reutilização, reciclagem, tratamento ou disposição final de acordo com a legislação ambiental vigente

Brazil source-specific definition; Portuguese text is authoritative and the English translation is a draft Minespider working translation.

Reference: Article 2, point IX

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Practical application

In implementation, this term is useful when Brazil-facing battery records need to show the destination route after collection or receipt. The relevant evidence may concern reuse, recycling, treatment, or final disposal, but the page should preserve the source’s broader final-destination logic instead of reducing the term to recycling alone.

Minespider commentary

For Minespider, environmentally adequate destination links Brazil used-battery handling to the evidence needed at the end of a return or waste-management pathway. It helps teams distinguish the destination decision from earlier reverse-logistics steps and from the narrower material-recovery event called recycling.

Common confusions

  • Do not treat the draft English translation as the official legal definition.
  • Do not reduce environmentally adequate destination to recycling alone; the source also covers collection, receipt, reuse, treatment, and final disposal procedures.
  • Do not assume this Brazil battery-waste term has the same scope as EU waste-management or India EPR terminology.