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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]
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 ...
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]
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.
extended producer responsibility ("product stewardship") eco-industrial parks ("industrial symbiosis") product-oriented environmental policy; eco-efficiency; Industrial ecology seeks to understand the way in which industrial systems (for example a factory, an ecoregion, or national or global economy) interact with the biosphere.
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.
Terseer Ugbor was the Executive Secretary/CEO of the Alliance for Responsible Battery Recycling (ARBR), the approved Producer Responsibility Organisation for the battery sector in Nigeria. [6] He is the founder/CEO of the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of Nigeria (REDIN) and also the REDIN Global Industries.
Waste hierarchy. Refusing, reducing, reusing, recycling and composting allow to reduce waste. Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced.