‘With the approval of the National Policy on Solid Waste, Brazil has a set of innovative tools for solving the problems of garbage in the country,’ says Minister of Environment Izabella Teixeira.
PNRS is the result of a broad consensus involving those in different cycles of production of solid waste, and defines responsibilities and tools for its management. It covers contamination, product lifecycle, selective collection, social control, waste management, recycling, shared responsibility and urban cleaning services.
According to th Brazilian Government, the policy ‘aims at the protection of public health and environmental quality, as well as at the adoption, development and improvement of clean technologies to minimise environmental impacts, and at the reduction of the volume of hazardous waste, among other actions’.
