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	<title>The Temas Blog &#187; Electronic/Electrical Equipment</title>
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		<title>Directional Signals in Brazilian Federal Waste Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/directional-signals-in-brazilian-federal-waste-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Packaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste & Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alagoas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[batteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C&D wastes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cartuchos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CONAMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construção civil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSSAGR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-lixo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronic waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEAM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluorescent lamps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hazardous waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBAMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lâmpadas fluorescentes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lithium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[litio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lixo eletrônico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lubricating oils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minas Gerais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil bottles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil packaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oleos lubrificantes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[packaging waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paraná]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pilhas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[printer cartridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[residuos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resíduos de embalagens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[residuos electrónicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resíduos perigosos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[São Paulo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEEE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A body most people have never heard of, part of a larger organization many people do not know or understand, met today and took a series of decisions that will help shape new directions in waste policy in Brazil.
The larger organization many do not know and a good many do not understand is Brazil&#8217;s National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toward Brazilian Environmental Norms for Electro-Electronics</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/toward-brazilian-environmental-norms-for-electro-electronics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/toward-brazilian-environmental-norms-for-electro-electronics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste & Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABNT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cobei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[componentes eletroeletrônicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-lixo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronic components]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Directive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mato Grosso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MCT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norma ambiental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[normas técnicas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[produtos eletroeletrônicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RoHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[São Paulo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[substâncias tóxicas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[União Europea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEEE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several jurisdictions in Brazil &#8212; most notably the States of São Paulo (SP) and Mato Grosso (MT), and the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (MRJ) &#8212; have recently adopted e-waste laws, and several states look interested in following suit (here, here and here).  There&#8217;s rumors that the National Environment Council (CONAMA) will soon decide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acordo Mineiro Sobre a Gestão de Resíduos Eletroeletrônicos</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/acordo-mineiro-sobre-a-gestao-de-residuos-eletroeletronicos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/acordo-mineiro-sobre-a-gestao-de-residuos-eletroeletronicos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste & Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3RsPCs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catadores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMRR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computadores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CONAMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRTs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-lixo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEAM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[José Cláudio Junqueira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lixo tecnologico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minas Gerais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monitores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reciclagem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resíduos eletroeletrônicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tubos de raios catódicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wastepickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEEE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Desde a Fundação Estadual do Meio Ambiente (FEAM):
Acordo irá incrementar ações de gestão de resíduos eletroeletrônicos
Previsto para acontecer ao longo de 2010, o projeto estabelecerá uma parceria, inicialmente, com 25 empresas que irão repassar equipamentos como computadores, telefones, celulares e impressoras em desuso para a Feam, que dentro do projeto 3RsPCs – Resíduos Eletroeletrônicos, dará [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toward an ISO Energy Management Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/climate-change/toward-an-iso-energy-management-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/climate-change/toward-an-iso-energy-management-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy & the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABNT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANSI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benchmarking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eletrobrás]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gases de efeito estufa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISO 14001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISO 50001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISO 9001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[São Paulo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supply chain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week in Rio de Janeiro and yesterday in São Paulo, Eletrobrás and the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) co-hosted workshops to try to get Brazilian business more actively involved in the process now underway in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to develop an international standard for energy management, ISO 50001.  One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green IT Rating System Expanded to Brazil and Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/climate-change/green-it-rating-system-expanded-to-brazil-and-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/climate-change/green-it-rating-system-expanded-to-brazil-and-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Production Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ComputaCenter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computadores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contenido reciclado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eficiencia energética]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPEAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gases de efecto invernadero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gases de efeito estufa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Electronics Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[informática]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japão]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japón]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycled content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[substâncias tóxicas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustancias tóxicas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxic substances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From EPEAT:
The Green Electronics Council Announces Major Expansion of EPEAT

International Green IT purchasing system enables electronics manufacturers to register computers and monitors in 40 countries

The Green Electronics Council today announced the availability of an international EPEAT purchasing registry, a major development that enables the world’s leading electronics manufacturers to list ‘green’ computers and monitors in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Updates Mandatory Energy Label for Air Conditioners</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/energy-the-environment/energy-efficiency/brazil-updates-mandatory-energy-label-for-air-conditioners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/energy-the-environment/energy-efficiency/brazil-updates-mandatory-energy-label-for-air-conditioners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air conditioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[condicionadores de ar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eficiencia energética]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy labeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etiquetagem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etiquetas de eficiência energética]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INMETRO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[split air conditioners]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=6005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brazil recently adopted a new set of rules for conformity assessment and energy effficiency labeling for air conditioners.  Among other things, National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (Inmetro) Portaria 215, adopted on 23 July 2009 and published in the federal gazette on 27 July:

extended the rules and compulsory labeling requirement (see sample below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Mexico&#8217;s Appliance Exchange Program</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/energy-the-environment/energy-efficiency/update-on-mexicos-appliance-exchange-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/energy-the-environment/energy-efficiency/update-on-mexicos-appliance-exchange-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ahorro de energía]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air conditioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aparatos electrodomésticos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distrito Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eficiencia energética]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electrodomésticos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equipos electrodomésticos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estado de México]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hidalgo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[household appliances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jalisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michoacán]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morelos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puebla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refrigeradores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refrigerators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SENER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinaloa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yucatán]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zona Metropolitana]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In January I posted about how Mexico has joined Brazil and Colombia in launching programs to get citizens to hand in their old refrigerators and/or air conditioners for newer, more efficient models.  Now the Energy Secretariat (SENER) reports that as of 23 July nearly 71,000 appliances had been replaced under the program.  The states with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An E-Waste Bill for Bahia</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/an-e-waste-bill-for-bahia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/an-e-waste-bill-for-bahia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste & Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computadores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-lixo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-scrap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[informática]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[informatics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meio ambiente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peripherals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pernambuco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reciclagem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[residuos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scrap electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[take-back]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEEE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on vacation in the Caribbean, with limited internet access (and a damaged laptop) and in any case supposedly ignoring my inbox and not posting.  But I peeked at the web version of my inbox using a relative&#8217;s laptop and, seeing a note on this, could not resist a quick post.
It shows something I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Take-Back in Rio de Janeiro / A Lei Sobre E-lixo do Municipio de Rio de Janeiro</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/computer-take-back-in-rio-de-janeiro-a-lei-sobre-e-lixo-do-municipio-de-rio-de-janeiro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste & Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benefícios fiscais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computadores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-lixo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-scrap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fabricantes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fornecedores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impressoras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lei Orgânica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meio ambiente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monitor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (MRJ) (population 6 million) became the first major Brazilian city to adopt an e-waste law.  The law is rather short and simple.  It requires manufacturers and suppliers of computers to receive in their offices, branches or headquarters in the City &#8220;obsolete&#8221; computers discarded by consumers.  The Law defines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ceará Adopts Lamp and Battery Take-Back Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the governor of the northeastern Brazilian state of Ceará (CE) signed a law that would require the take-back of fluorescent lamps, batteries and piles.
The very brief and simple law requires vendors of such products in the state to provide collection bins on their premises for consumers to drop off those at the end of  [...]]]></description>
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