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2.3 The Reverse Logistics Situation of Lamps in Paraná
The environmentally correct destination of the lamps has been a problem for the
cities of Paraná. Although the legislation requires that the material be returned to
the industry that originated it, not all manufacturers end up recovering this waste.
In cases like this, many wastes are sent to the landfill, since the City Halls do not
manage the waste properly.
After the PNRS was approved, some of the cities started to worry about the
reverse logistics of lamps, although there are still few cities that adopt the type of
collection and incentive for the correct disposal of lamps. The small number of
cities that practice reverse logistics has worried the State office for the Environment
(Sema) of the State of Paraná, which came to meet in 2013 with representatives of
86 municipalities in Paraná responsible for 90% of the waste generated in the state,
in order to avoid that recyclable waste ends up being sent to landfills and end up
further contaminating the environment (Silva 2013).
The capital of the state is an example to be followed on the practice of collecting
lamps. According to the Curitiba City Hall website (https://www.curitiba.pr.gov.br,
retrieved on August 26, 2017), trucks have been available since 1998 that remain each
day of the month in city buses terminals, where light bulbs and other types of toxic
waste are received, which need treatments to be disposed of to an appropriate end.
The Brazilian Association for the Management of Reverse Logistics (Reciclus), a
non-profit civil organization, in 2017 implemented 8 lamp collectors in shops spread
across the city of Curitiba and the metropolitan region. The organization plans to
implement, still in 2018, another 10 points of delivery points in the State of Paraná
(Paraná 2017).
The city of Londrina, located in the north of the state, has the help of some
retail outlets to assist in the collection of post-consumer lamps, such as a pharmacy,
supermarket and building material store (G1 PR 2014). According to the Londrina
City Hall (https://www.londrina.pr.gov.br/, recovered on 03, September, 2017), the
city has a Reverse Logistics Center, which after collecting and storing the products
described in the PNRS, the product is classified by manufacturer and the plant then
contacts the associations in charge of collecting its products and giving the correct
destination. The academic community has also been concerned with the conscious
disposal of light bulbs, according to the website of the State University of Londrina
(https://www.uel.br/portal/, recovered on 07, September, 2017), in 2011, a portable
equipment was carried into the University Campus to perform the decontamination of
lamps and alerted the university community that the fluorescent lamp has hazardous
waste and cannot be disposed of in the trash.
The city of Irati, according to the Department of the Environment, in 2010, was
the second city in Paraná to put reverse logistics into practice, discarding about 3500
lamps collected by the Municipality. However, there have been no other reverse
logistics practices since then. According to Sava (2017), reverse logistics was once
again discussed by the Municipal Office of Ecology and Environment. In 2017,
a meeting was held explaining the reverse logistics and the need to adapt to the
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2.3 The Reverse Logistics Situation of Lamps in Paraná
The environmentally correct destination of the lamps has been a problem for the
cities of Paraná. Although the legislation requires that the material be returned to
the industry that originated it, not all manufacturers end up recovering this waste.
In cases like this, many wastes are sent to the landfill, since the City Halls do not
manage the waste properly.
After the PNRS was approved, some of the cities started to worry about the
reverse logistics of lamps, although there are still few cities that adopt the type of
collection and incentive for the correct disposal of lamps. The small number of
cities that practice reverse logistics has worried the State office for the Environment
(Sema) of the State of Paraná, which came to meet in 2013 with representatives of
86 municipalities in Paraná responsible for 90% of the waste generated in the state,
in order to avoid that recyclable waste ends up being sent to landfills and end up
further contaminating the environment (Silva 2013).
The capital of the state is an example to be followed on the practice of collecting
lamps. According to the Curitiba City Hall website (https://www.curitiba.pr.gov.br,
retrieved on August 26, 2017), trucks have been available since 1998 that remain each
day of the month in city buses terminals, where light bulbs and other types of toxic
waste are received, which need treatments to be disposed of to an appropriate end.
The Brazilian Association for the Management of Reverse Logistics (Reciclus), a
non-profit civil organization, in 2017 implemented 8 lamp collectors in shops spread
across the city of Curitiba and the metropolitan region. The organization plans to
implement, still in 2018, another 10 points of delivery points in the State of Paraná
(Paraná 2017).
The city of Londrina, located in the north of the state, has the help of some
retail outlets to assist in the collection of post-consumer lamps, such as a pharmacy,
supermarket and building material store (G1 PR 2014). According to the Londrina
City Hall (https://www.londrina.pr.gov.br/, recovered on 03, September, 2017), the
city has a Reverse Logistics Center, which after collecting and storing the products
described in the PNRS, the product is classified by manufacturer and the plant then
contacts the associations in charge of collecting its products and giving the correct
destination. The academic community has also been concerned with the conscious
disposal of light bulbs, according to the website of the State University of Londrina
(https://www.uel.br/portal/, recovered on 07, September, 2017), in 2011, a portable
equipment was carried into the University Campus to perform the decontamination of
lamps and alerted the university community that the fluorescent lamp has hazardous
waste and cannot be disposed of in the trash.
The city of Irati, according to the Department of the Environment, in 2010, was
the second city in Paraná to put reverse logistics into practice, discarding about 3500
lamps collected by the Municipality. However, there have been no other reverse
logistics practices since then. According to Sava (2017), reverse logistics was once
again discussed by the Municipal Office of Ecology and Environment. In 2017,
a meeting was held explaining the reverse logistics and the need to adapt to the