Recovery logistics management in Portugal

Following the communitarian politics, Portugal has to implement wasted management politics namely the recovery logistic management systems. This paper is focused in the analysis of the effects of the introduction of the discarded products at the end of their service life recovery in the traditional logistic chain. This will be analyzed in that it concerns to the reverse logistics system configuration, being characterized the associated critical factors of some wastes. The implementation degree of directives of the European Parliament and of the European Union in Portugal will be analyzed specifically for the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and End-of-Life Vehicles. The critical factors that constrain these politics implementation will be evidenced.