IBAMA, Brazil’s federal environmental licensing agency, has fined 79 companies 31.4 million reais ($8 million) for not meeting targets for collecting for recycling purposes used automotive lubricating oils they produced or imported, the agency announced Oct. 5. A 2005 resolution (No. 362) of the National Environmental Council required automotive lubricating oils to be recycled, and a 2012 joint measure (No. 59) by the Environment Ministry and the Mines and Energy Ministry set targets for the minimum percentage of used automotive lubricating oil that its producers and importers had to collect from 2012 through 2015, usually at gasoline stations where motorists ...
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