REVERSE LOGISTICS AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY: RECENT CHANGES IN PUBLIC POLICIES AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT

• Autor(a) principal: Cerqueira Streit , Jorge Alfredo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Guarnieri, Patricia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Economia Política do Desenvolvimento (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.seer.ufal.br/index.php/repd/article/view/15955
• topic: Reverse Logistics; Circular Economy; Waste Management; Public policy; Sustainable Development; Logística reversa; Economia Circular; Gestão de resíduos; Políticas públicas; Desenvolvimento sustentável

Public policies are instruments capable of generating changes in the political and social system and can even help implement Reverse Logistics (LR) and Circular Economy (CE). Therefore, this study aims to identify recent changes in public policies on solid waste and analyse the potential for encouraging RL and CE. This investigation is characterised as qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive, based in a documental analysis, documents available publicy were considered for the data collection. We found four recent decrees on the Presidency of the Republic website. They were described and discussed in the literature, and it was found that all if implemented, can contribute to sustainability. After all, they bring new forms of control, establish goals and deadlines and guarantee isonomy in inspection. Furthermore, they organise the flow and provide for the installation of collection points. The decrees innovate by presenting new instruments for implementing the LR and regrouping the players in the packaging chain which contributes, partially, to the transition towards the circular economy. Finally, there is a concern about strengthening the cooperatives of recyclable material collectors by recreating the Interministerial Committee and specific programs. Therefore, this paper can contribute to practitioners who need to adapt to new norms and gives suggestionsfor future research.