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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 ...
As a result, NESREA began to work in this sector to establish the application of the extended producer responsibility principle in waste management (other sectors of the economy such as the food and beverage industry are also involved). To achieve this, they set up a nationwide program and published guidelines for the relevant industry players.
Product stewardship is an approach to managing the environmental impacts of different products and materials and at different stages in their production, use and disposal. . It acknowledges that those involved in producing, selling, using and disposing of products have a shared responsibility to ensure that those products or materials are managed in a way that reduces their impact, throughout ...
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]
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
EPR is a concept wherein companies are held responsible past the point of sale (extended) and is based in the belief that companies are responsible for the entire life cycle of their products. Also, the discussion of "consumer responsibility" and CO2 should be in a different section as it is not part of the definition of EPR.
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.