Reverse Logistics Gargalos, Regulation and Lack of Incentives Brake Potential for Urban Mining

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Brazil has everything to be a power in the urban mining market (extraction of metals and minerals from electronic waste, such as cell phones and computers): diversity of renewable energy sources, progressive increase in the consumption of electronic equipment and advance of the recycling industry. This gigantic and multi-billion-dollar market, however, remains virtually unexplored in the country, which generates 2.4 million tons of electronic wa…