The 8th article of the Brazilian National Solid Waste Policy (BNSWP) identifies reverse
logistics as a management instrument, together with selective collection and other instruments
related to the implementation of the shared responsibility for solid waste management.
However, the execution of reverse logistics and selective collection is shared by several
representatives of the public and private sectors, especially in Palmas municipality, location of
the object of this study, where there is no public selective collection in the door-to-door model.
It is up to the Municipal Government to propose objectives and goals to carry out the reverse
logistics of various types of solid waste, including packaging in general (mentioned in the first
paragraph of the 33rd article of the BNSWP), terminology used in the Sectoral Agreement,
which covers a large part of the recyclable materials. The verification of compliance with these
goals is done through performance indicators, and this work starts from a criticism by the
authors of the existing indicators, which are currently in use by the management of the
municipality of Palmas/TO. Thus, proposing a set of seven new performance indicators for
local municipal managers, in order to quantify and qualify the fulfillment of what was proposed
in the sectorial agreement for the reverse logistics of packaging in general was the objective of
this research. The methodology used was the documentary research, carried out from a sample
of Integrated Solid Waste Management Municipal Plans, with the largest municipalities in
Tocantins State and that have these Plans being pre-selected; and the similar population size,
with municipalities around 300,000 inhabitants being also selected (considering between
200,000 and 400,000 inhabitants). 71 Integrated Solid Waste Management Municipal Plans
were then compiled in an embracing sample with all regions of Brazil, and their contents were
read in search of indicators ranging from selective collection to reverse logistics of packaging
in general and several auxiliary worksheets were filled in, whose results were filtered based on
selected criteria according to the theoretical framework raised. The results show the indicators
raised in tables, and the application of the filtering steps of the results from the selected criteria,
until the presentation of a results table with seven indicators that met the pre-defined criteria.
These indicators range from evaluating the existence of a law regulating reverse logistics to the
percentage of establishments that participate in reverse logistics in the municipality. Finally, it
was concluded that it is possible to propose performance indicators that interact with the
existing and current Sectoral Agreements, and the Reverse Logistics, instruments of the
Brazilian National Solid Waste Policy.
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