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Pará Adopts a Recycling Policy
By Keith R | October 22, 2008
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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
- aid the creation of recycling centers to store, sell and distribute such materials;
- provide incentives for the creation of special industrial districts devoted to recycling materials (“recycling parks”);
- provide incentives to the development of municipal environmental education programs to promote recycling;
- promote special projects that utilize collected used materials;
- promote environmental education campaigns about the benefits of valorization of recyclables;
- work with municipalities to promote selective collection;
- concede tax benefits and incentives that promote recycling activities, such as suspension of the sales tax (Impostos sobre Circulação de Mercadorias e Prestação de Serviços – ICMS), tax holidays or special rates or credits;
- provide for a special state fund to help finance participation of recycling firms;
- create a “tax neutral” zone wherein certain import operations that are in line with the State Recycling Policy (such as importation of certain equipment used for recycling operations) can be exempted from tariffs and taxes.
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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