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    Pará Adopts a Recycling Policy

    By Keith R | October 22, 2008

    Topics: Environmental Protection, Waste & Recycling | No Comments »

          
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    Earlier this month Governor Simão Jatene signed a law creating a State Materials Recycling Policy for Pará. The new Law is based on similar measures adopted recently by its neighbor Amapá and by several other Brazilian states, including Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Rondônia (see the Temas list of waste/recycling legislation for download).  It seeks to promote and provide incentives to the commercialization and industrial utilization of used paper, board, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics (plastic bottles are given special mention), glass, construction rubble and other production or post-consumer wastes and residues (including liquid wastes).

    The Law tasks the Executive to

    Any special benefits will only be offered to specific parties duly registered for that purpose with the state agency that will be designated by the Governor.

    The Law also calls on the Executive Branch to study the viability of “collaboration or participation of” for-profit recycling agents.

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