E-waste Reverse Logistics for Household Products and Its Regulation: Advances in Brazil

The regulation for reverse logistics of household electrical and electronic products and their components published in 2020 raised the research gap as the absence of a detailed characterization which demonstrates the progress of the planned phases and their goals. Therefore, this work aims to analyze the advances in the agenda of structuring and implementing the reverse logistics for electronic products in the collective model. In the end, it presents the structured knowledge of the evolution and potential of this model to comply with legal requirements. The analysis was based on secondary data collected on the institutional pages of the companies which manages the collective model, not limiting the period, with data triangulation in the social networks of communication with society to obtain data intertextuality. Despite the challenge of waste management in a continental country like Brazil, this research showed a significant advance in operationalizing the reverse logistics system for electronic products, with industrial sector of electronic equipment joining at collective model and investing in infrastructure for reverse logistics. The study suggests to the entrepreneurs a market to act both in support of the logistics business, meet legal requirements, and set up recycling companies in regions that are lagging behind. Suggestions to fully meet the demands are simplification and tax incentives for the recycle industry and establish a relationship between government spheres to reduce tax differences between regions and adapt the system’s operation to the reality of each location.