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Tires are an example of products subject to extended producer responsibility in many industrialized countries. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy to add all of the estimated environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of that product, contemporarily mainly applied in the field of waste management. [1]
Electronic waste (or e-waste) describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. It is also commonly known as waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) or end-of-life (EOL) electronics. [1] Used electronics which are destined for refurbishment, reuse, resale, salvage recycling through material recovery, or disposal are also considered ...
In 2013, Colombia implemented an EPR law that ultimately focused on enforcing guidelines for managing electronic waste. Additionally, the country has developed a number of “post-consumer programs for used batteries, medicine, computers and printers, fluorescent light bulbs, used tires and pesticide containers”. [ 25 ]
Powered by advancements in battery technology, the number of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles on U.S. roads is increasing. Despite overwhelming enthusiasm for cheaper, more powerful and energy ...
The conundrum The question of how Hawaii will recycle or dispose of a growing volume of lithium-ion battery waste as the state scales up its clean energy goals is a conundrum, given the state's ...
Battery recycling is a recycling activity that aims to reduce the number of batteries being disposed as municipal solid waste. Batteries contain a number of heavy metals and toxic chemicals and disposing of them by the same process as regular household waste has raised concerns over soil contamination and water pollution . [ 1 ]
In 2014 they merged with European Recycling Platform (ERP) and founded the Landbell Group. [9] [10] ERP had been created in 2002 by Hewlett-Packard, Electrolux, Sony and Procter & Gamble in response to the introduction of the European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, and the Batteries Directive which was adopted in 2006. [11]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Friday it's granting $355 million in federal funding to a series of manufacturing projects in Michigan, all aimed at bolstering production for ...