Extended Producer Responsibility
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy approach in which a producer's responsibility, physical and/or financial, for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product's life cycle. There are two key features of EPR policy: (1) the shifting of responsibility (physically and/or economically, fully or partially) upstream to the producer and away from municipalities, and (2) to provide incentives to producers to take environmental considerations into the design of the product. -OECD |
Resources:
Extended Producer Responsibility: Priority Statement 2004
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/publications/eprps2004.pdf
Government of New South Wales, 2004
The role of economic in Extended Producer Responsibility: Making policy choices and setting policy goals
http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-DP-03-11.pdf
RFF, 2003
Extended Producer Responsibility: Reexamining its role in environmental progress
RPPI, 2002
Extended Producer Responsibility: A guidance manual for governments
http://oecdpublications.gfi-nb.com/cgi-bin/OECDBookShop.storefront/EN/product/972001041P1
OECD, 2001
Extended Producer Responsibility: The new phase of the US recycling movement
http://www.ilsr.org/recycling/other/take_back_conf.pdf
ILSR, 2000
Is Extended Producer Responsibility effective?
http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/est/00/apr/hanis.html
American Chemical Society, 2000
Extended Producer Responsibility: A Materials Policy for the 21st Century
http://www.informinc.org/eprpolicy.php
Inform Inc, 2000
Strategies to promote cleaner production: Extended Producer Responsibility
http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/strat.htm
Cleaner Production Action, 1999
Return to sender: An introduction to Extended Producer Responsibility
http://www.aod.auc.dk/staff/nmor/ReturntoSender.pdf
New South Wales Government, 1998
Extended Producer Responsibility: A primer
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Extended-Producer-Responsibility.htm
Container Recycling Institute, 1997
OECD workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility: Who is the producer?
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/ottawa.pdf
OECD, 1997
Environment Canada's EPR and stewardship page
http://www.ec.gc.ca/epr/en/index.cfm
SVTC's clean computer campaign
http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/index.html
Inform Inc's resources on EPR
http://www.informinc.org/epr_00.php
GRRN resources on producer responsibility
http://www.grrn.org/resources/producer_responsibility.html
ILSR resources on EPR and product stewardship
http://www.ilsr.org/recycling/eprhomepage.html
Extended Producer Responsibility Working Group