Article

Brazil's new national policy on solid waste: Challenges and opportunities

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Citation

Jabbour ABLdS, Jabbour CJC, Sarkis J & Govindan K (2014) Brazil's new national policy on solid waste: Challenges and opportunities. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 16 (1), pp. 7-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-013-0600-z

Abstract
Brazil, one of the world’s largest developing countries, has recently introduced a new solid waste management regulatory policy. This new regulatory policy will have implications for a wide variety of stakeholders and sets the stage for opportunities and lessons to be learned. These issues are discussed in this article.

Keywords
Brazil; National policy on solid waste; Sustainability

Journal
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy: Volume 16, Issue 1

StatusPublished
Publication date31/01/2014
Publication date online29/03/2013
Date accepted by journal10/03/2013
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/24278
PublisherSpringer
ISSN1618-954X