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Planned Obsolescence Resulting from Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Waste Rights and Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy

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Contemporary concerns about the sustainability of consumption do not derive solely from the fact that the products available in the market incorporate new technologies with as yet unknown risks. The deliberate market strategy of planned obsolescence—the rapid and continuous release of newer versions of products—is also pertinent. While this strategy to manufacture products with shorter life-cycles to be quickly replaced by newer versions moves the market, it also means products are discarded faster, resulting in residues and waste. This is particularly true of electrical and electronical equipment (EEE), which, once discarded, become electronic waste (e-waste). This chapter analyses planned obsolescence of EEE within the waste rights, more specifically, within Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy (NSWP), (Brazilian Law No. 12305/2010). Having in mind sustainable consumption, a systematic interpretation of the consumer rights was carried out.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Sustainable Management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in Latin America (2016), p. 1.

  2. 2.

    See Sustainable Management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in Latin America (2016), p. 1.

  3. 3.

    The terms electrical and electronic waste, technological waste and e-waste will be used synonymously throughout the chapter.

  4. 4.

    See Sustainable Management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in Latin America (2016), p. 1.

  5. 5.

    See Cook and Jardim (2017), p. 4.

  6. 6.

    See Sustainable Management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in Latin America (2016), p. 6.

  7. 7.

    Magalini et al. (2015), p. 5.

  8. 8.

    See Article 3, XIII.

  9. 9.

    See Aragão (2003), pp. 55–60.

  10. 10.

    Aragão (2003), p. 8.

  11. 11.

    See: Konder (2015), p. 44.

  12. 12.

    Leff (2012), p. 23.

  13. 13.

    See: Bauman (2008).

  14. 14.

    Bell (1973), p. 148.

  15. 15.

    Retondar (2008), p. 140.

  16. 16.

    Bauman (2008), p. 44.

  17. 17.

    Ibid.

  18. 18.

    Baudrillard (2014), p. 44.

  19. 19.

    Ibid, p. 45.

  20. 20.

    Magera (2013), p. 99.

  21. 21.

    Ibid.

  22. 22.

    Loubet (2007), p. 246.

  23. 23.

    Magera (2013), p. 15.

  24. 24.

    Ibid.

  25. 25.

    Franzolin (2017), p. 45; see, also: Moraes (2015).

  26. 26.

    Packard (1965), p. 50.

  27. 27.

    Ibid.

  28. 28.

    Ibid, p. 51.

  29. 29.

    Ibid.

  30. 30.

    Ibid.

  31. 31.

    Ibid, p. 63.

  32. 32.

    Behrends (2004), p. 3.

  33. 33.

    Magera (2013), p. 15.

  34. 34.

    Ibid.

  35. 35.

    Ibid.

  36. 36.

    See CEC-ZEV.

  37. 37.

    See CEC-ZEV.

  38. 38.

    See Souza et al. (2007).

  39. 39.

    See CEC-ZEV.

  40. 40.

    See CEC-ZEV.

  41. 41.

    See CEC-ZEV.

  42. 42.

    Aragão (2003), p. 9.

  43. 43.

    Lemos and Mendes (2013), p. 43.

  44. 44.

    Machado (2016), p. 682.

  45. 45.

    UN Economic and social development (n.d.).

  46. 46.

    See Lemos and Mendes (2013), p. 47.

  47. 47.

    Leff (2012), p. 25.

  48. 48.

    Abramovay (2012), p. 34.

  49. 49.

    See: Candemil (2012), pp. 13–44.

  50. 50.

    See: Gouveia and Prado (2010), pp. 859–866.

  51. 51.

    Article 6, III, of Law 12305/2010.

  52. 52.

    Aragão (2006), p. 93.

  53. 53.

    Aragão (2003), p. 8.

  54. 54.

    Ibid.

  55. 55.

    Ibid.

  56. 56.

    Aragão (2003), p. 8.

  57. 57.

    Aragão (2003), p. 7.

  58. 58.

    Portilho (2005), p. 51.

  59. 59.

    Marques (2015), p. 129.

  60. 60.

    Lemos (2012), p. 25.

  61. 61.

    Ibid.

  62. 62.

    Baudrillard (2014), p. 33.

  63. 63.

    Tonani (2011), p. 76.

  64. 64.

    Lemos (2012), p. 34.

  65. 65.

    Cook and Jardim (2017), p. 6.

  66. 66.

    Ibid.

  67. 67.

    Lemos (2012), p. 85.

  68. 68.

    Article 9 of Law No. 12305/2010.

  69. 69.

    Machado (2016), p. 647.

  70. 70.

    Aragão (2003), p. 9.

  71. 71.

    Packard (1965), p. 8.

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Franzolin, C.J. (2020). Planned Obsolescence Resulting from Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Waste Rights and Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy. In: Amaral Junior, A.d., Almeida, L.d., Klein Vieira, L. (eds) Sustainable Consumption. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16985-5_25

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