Legal geographies of e-waste legislation in Canada and the US: Jurisdiction, responsibility and the taboo of production

Lepawsky, Josh

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.03.006

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“…They show that these flows are based on highly brokered forms of governance, grounded largely in trust relations -hence the importance of ethnic and familial trader networks -which in turn connect with the practices of valuing heterogeneous materials, through sorting, separation and segregation. Further confirmation of the importance of trust relations comes from research on e-waste [159] with an emergent strand of work focusing on interventions which use labels and standards to guarantee ethical recycling [159,160].…”

Section: : Wastes To Resources: Global Recycling Economies and Globamentioning

confidence: 99%

From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

Gregson

Crang

2015

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

127

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Section: : Wastes To Resources: Global Recycling Economies and Globamentioning

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From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

Gregson

Crang

2015

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

127

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“…Dessa forma, a gestão é de responsabilidade de cada estado e, em específico, dos municípios (Wagner, 2009). Apesar de Lepawsky (2012) vislumbrar pontos positivos nesse sistema de jurisdição estadual que possibilita um conjunto dinâmico e múltiplo de normas locais ao contrário de um cumprimento rigoroso de regras gerais, a inexistência de legislação federal demonstra um desinteresse do governo federal ao ignorar a questão das substâncias perigosas contidas nos eletroeletrônicos comercializados.…”

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“…Se o preço final de um produto no mercado passa a embutir uma taxa extra, isso significa que cabe ao consumidor (pessoa física e/ou jurídica) contribuir para a formação de um fundo destinado a financiar os serviços de coleta e reciclagem. Lepawsky (2012) salienta que, embora 20 dos 24 estados dos EUA que já possuíam legislação sobre REEE até 2010, incluem uma regulamentação para evitar bitributação de taxas sobre o consumidor no fim da vida do produto eletrônico (quando este é devolvido para a reciclagem), nada impede que um agente reciclador a exija no momento da compra do referido produto, externalizando assim os custos da gestão dos REEE 1 . Ressalta-se que existem estados americanos que atribuem o custo da gestão do REEE aos varejistas.…”

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Os Resíduos Eletroeletrônicos No Brasil E No Exterior: Diferenças Legais E a Premência De Uma Normatização Mundial

Sant‘Anna

Machado

Brito

2014

RGSA

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RESUMODiante do crescimento exacerbado dos resíduos de equipamentos eletroeletrônicos (REEE) e da ausência de uma política brasileira estruturada que defina as responsabilidades necessárias à organização de uma cadeia reversa de eletroeletrônicos, escolheu-se comparar as legislações dos maiores geradores de REEE do mundo: Estados Unidos, China, Índia e Brasil, bem como de um país pioneiro em gestão de REEE, a Suíça. Por meio de uma pesquisa qualitativa, efetuou-se uma revisão bibliográfica sistemática que identificou semelhanças e divergências legislativas acerca da gestão de REEE entre os países comparados. Este estudo indica ainda a necessidade de uma normatização brasileira que defina os papéis de cada ator envolvido na gestão de REEE, bem como as regras mundiais que facilitem a cooperação internacional no compartilhamento de tecnologias de reciclagem e processos de produção e o descarte sustentável de REEE. Palavras-chave:Gestão; Logística reversa; Legislação; Normatização mundial; Resíduos de equipamentos eletroeletrônicos. E-WASTE IN BRAZIL AND ABROAD: LEGAL DIFFERENCES AND THE URGENT NEED OF A GLOBAL STANDARDIZATION ABSTRACTFacing the overgrowth of electric and electronic waste (e-waste) and the absence of a structured Brazilian policy that defines the responsibilities to the organization of a reverse chair of electronics, this article compares laws from The United States, China, India (all of which are large generators of e-waste) and Switzerland (pioneer country in e-waste management) to the homeland legislation. Through qualitative research, a systematic literature review was adopted, which identified similarities and differences within legislation regarding electronic waste management among the countries. This study also indicates the need for a Brazilian standardization that defines the roles of stakeholders involved in e-waste management, as well as global standardization to facilitate an international cooperation in the sharing of recycling technologies and production processes and sustainable disposal of e-waste.

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“…For example, Zsuzsa Gille (2010) has showed how exogenous changes have pushed institutions' perceptions of waste over time and enlisted policy, technologies and economics into various waste regimes. Furthermore, Ruth Lane (2011) and Josh Lepawsky (2012) have demonstrated the obstacles in transforming the collection schemes by allowing the involvement of informal actors and implementing producer responsibility, respectively. Whether regimes can be applied to landfills and theoretically explain the origin of the uncertainties remains to be studied.…”

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Transforming dumps into gold mines. Experiences from Swedish case studies

Johansson

Krook

Eklund

2012

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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This article discusses the transformation of landfills from dumps to an alchemist's dream-gold mines-by highlighting five Swedish case studies where the landfill has been extracted. It is shown that landfills are embedded in broader socio-technical systems, including technology, policies, culture, norms, markets, and networks. These artifacts have aligned into mutual dependencies under the notion that landfills are garbage dumps, which has entrapped the landfill in the prevailing "dump regime". At the present time there is a window of opportunity to escape the "dump regime." Dumps are being challenged by the circular economy, which has established instability in the regime. However, for landfills to transform into "gold mines" creative entrepreneurs with the capacity to understand the emergent properties of deposition -i.e. giving rise to a resource base -will be key. For further transformation, specialized mining actors, collaboration and further exogenous changes such as higher metal prices are necessary.

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Legal geographies of e-waste legislation in Canada and the US: Jurisdiction, responsibility and the taboo of production

Cited by 62 publications

References 40 publications

From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

Os Resíduos Eletroeletrônicos No Brasil E No Exterior: Diferenças Legais E a Premência De Uma Normatização Mundial

Transforming dumps into gold mines. Experiences from Swedish case studies

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