Policy trends of extended producer responsibility in Malaysia.

Policy options to reduce consumer waste to zero: comparing product stewardship and extended producer responsibility for refrigerator waste.

Today, over-consumption, pollution and resource depletion threaten sustainability. Waste management policies frequently fail to reduce consumption, prevent pollution, conserve resources and foster sustainable products. However, waste policies are changing to focus on lifecycle impacts of products from the cradle to the grave by extending the responsibilities of stakeholders to post-consumer man...

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)

The Role of Economics in Extended Producer Responsibility: Making Policy Choices and Setting Policy Goals

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) embodies the notion that producers should be made physically or financially responsible for the environmental impacts their products have at the end of product life. The EPR concept has taken hold in Europe and is garnering wide interest in the United States, where a variant known as “shared product responsibility” or “product stewardship” is usually the p...

Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Stewardship for Tobacco Product Waste

This paper reviews several environmental principles, including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Product Stewardship (PS), the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP), and the Precautionary Principle, as they may apply to tobacco product waste (TPW). The review addresses specific criteria that apply in deciding whether a particular toxic product should adhere to these principles; presents three cas...

1 End - of - life Product Recovery : Drivers ,

This article reviews prior academic research on end of life (EOL) product recovery, a component of extended producer responsibility (EPR), focusing on the management literature. Both non-market and market pressures are driving companies to take greater responsibility for their EOL products, including taking them back from customers. Several ideas are proposed for further research that would be ...