The State of Play on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): Opportunities and Challenges Global Forum on Environment: Promoting Sustainable Materials Management through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

Modeling the Uncertainty of the Remanufacturing Process for Consideration of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

There is a growing body of evidence to support the proposition of product take back for remanufacturing particularly within the context of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Remanufacturing however presents challenges unlike that of traditional manufacturing environments due to its high levels of uncertainty which may further distract organizations from considering its potential benefits. ...

Policy trends of extended producer responsibility in Malaysia.

This paper seeks to examine the provisions for extended producer responsibility (EPR) within the Malaysian environmental and waste management policies and to determine its existing practice and future prospects in Malaysia. Malaysian waste generation has been increasing drastically where solid waste generation was estimated to increase from about 9.0 million tonnes in 2000 to about 10.9 million...

Product recovery decisions within the context of Extended Producer Responsibility

Environmental and economic evidence is increasingly supporting the need for better analytical tools for evaluating the recovery of consumer products. In response, we present a novel mathematical model for determining what we call the Optimal Recovery Plan (ORP) for any given product. The ORP is based on an evaluation and optimization of the economics of remanufacturing consumer products versus ...

ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT OECD Seminar on Extended Producer Responsibility, EPR: Programme Implementation and Assessment

Efficient Implementation of Collective Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy tool that holds producers financially responsible for the post-use collection, recycling and disposal of their products. EPR implementations are typically collective a large collection and recycling network (CRN) handles multiple producers’ products in order to benefit from scale and scope economies. The total cost is then allocated to producer...