A Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for returning solid waste to the business sector for reuse, production cycles, or environmentally appropriate final destination.
Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy defines reverse logistics in Portuguese as a system of actions, procedures, and means for collecting and returning solid waste to the business sector. The draft English translation helps English readers understand the term, but the Portuguese legal text remains authoritative.
The source is Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy, Law No. 12.305 of 2 August 2010. It supplies a broad solid-waste reverse-logistics term that can support battery and circularity workflows, while CONAMA Resolution 401/2008 supplies more battery-specific Brazil context.
For implementation teams, model reverse logistics as a return-flow and responsibility layer: collection, restitution to the business sector, reuse in production cycles, or environmentally appropriate final destination. Preserve the Portuguese source and draft English translation separately.
Law No. 12.305 of 2 August 2010 — National Solid Waste Policy
instrumento de desenvolvimento econômico e social caracterizado por um conjunto de ações, procedimentos e meios destinados a viabilizar a coleta e a restituição dos resíduos sólidos ao setor empresarial, para reaproveitamento, em seu ciclo ou em outros ciclos produtivos, ou outra destinação final ambientalmente adequada
Brazil source-specific definition; Portuguese text is authoritative and the English translation is a draft Minespider working translation.
Reference: Article 3, point XII
Use this term when mapping Brazil-facing take-back, return, reuse, recycling, recovery, or environmentally appropriate destination workflows. For batteries, it should connect product and waste records to collection and return pathways without pretending that Brazil’s reverse-logistics definition is the same as EU battery-passport or product-stewardship language.
For Minespider, reverse logistics is a useful compliance-linking anchor in Brazil. It can connect battery or material records to return flows, business-sector responsibility, reuse routes, and final-destination evidence while keeping the Brazil National Solid Waste Policy source visible.