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  2. Extended producer responsibility - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Thomas Lindhqvist - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Lindhqvist (born 4 February 1954) is a Swedish academic. He is credited for introducing the concept of extended producer responsibility. [1] He is currently associate professor and director of research programs at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden [2]

  4. Polluter pays principle - Wikipedia

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    The polluter pays principle is also known as extended producer responsibility (EPR). This is a concept that was probably first described by Thomas Lindhqvist for the Swedish government in 1990. [12] EPR seeks to shift the responsibility of dealing with waste from governments (and thus, taxpayers and society at large) to the entities producing ...

  5. End of Life Vehicles Directive - Wikipedia

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    The member states had to implement the directive in two steps. While in the first step only vehicle registered after 1 July 2002 fell under the extended producer responsibility, the second step as of 1 January 2007 covered all vehicles a given producer has ever introduced in the market place.

  6. Dov Khenin - Wikipedia

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    The law, which is predicated on the principle of "the polluter pays," provides for extended producer responsibility for the treatment and reduction of electronic waste that can cause soil and groundwater contamination, and makes arrangements for the collection and recycling of purchased appliances. [53]

  7. Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste ...

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    The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007, [1] which originally came into effect at the end of August 1997 [2] in Great Britain and in 1999 in Northern Ireland, [3] was the first producer responsibility legislation in the UK.

  8. EPR - Wikipedia

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    EPR (nuclear reactor), European Pressurised-Water Reactor EPR paradox (Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox), in physics; Earth potential rise, in electrical engineering; East Pacific Rise, a mid-oceanic ridge

  9. Recycling in Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    The 4-in-1 recycling program is part of Taiwan's extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme. The fees charged by this program are paid by manufacturers and importers to the government, which uses this money to fund recycling programs such as educational campaigns and the development of new recycling programs. [6]