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Extended producer responsibility

About: Extended producer responsibility is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1120 publications have been published within this topic receiving 26805 citations. The topic is also known as: EPR.


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13 Jun 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the perception of households on financial incentives in endorsing sustainable recycling for municipal solid waste in Nigeria and found that a moderate to positive relationship exists between households' perception of financial incentives for recycling, and drivers for household willingness to recycle municipal waste.
Abstract: Recycling is viewed as a central aspect in sustainability and mainly as pro-environmental consumer behavior. The purpose of this study is to examine the perception of households on financial incentives in endorsing sustainable recycling for municipal solid waste in Nigeria. The study was conducted in the Shomolu Local Government Area, Lagos State, Nigeria. The study also covers drivers for household willingness to recycle municipal solid waste on environmental risk, behavioral economics, resource value, economic benefit, convenience, knowledge, legislation, and belief. The result from the study asserts the hypothesis that financial incentives for recycling are vital for reducing and managing municipal solid waste sustainably. The most important driver for household willingness to recycle municipal solid waste is the detrimental environmental impacts. A moderate to positive relationship exists between households’ perception of financial incentives for recycling and drivers for household willingness to recycle municipal solid waste. The study recommends adopting the extended producer responsibility (EPR) model, reverse vending options, amongst other approaches, in an effort to promote recycling culture among citizens and residents in Nigeria.

9 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
07 Aug 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the tension between environmental benefits and economic incentives in improving end-of-life management of compact disc (CD) material, and highlight the extent to which these complexities may undermine the producer responsibility concept.
Abstract: An important tenet of the producer responsibility concept is to place the responsibility for end-of-life management of consumer goods with the identified producer of the goods. This concept has been used, for example, in the context of the proposed EU Directive on Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). Over the last two years ICL has implemented a pilot scheme for the management of end-of-life compact disc (CD) material in response to evolving EU legislation. The paper outlines the design and operation of this scheme and discusses some of the policy lessons which emerge from it. It highlights that there are tensions between environmental benefits and economic incentives in improving end-of-life management. These make it desirable to push responsibility up the supply chain but this is hampered by the complexities within the business-to-business relationships. The extent to which these complexities may undermine the producer responsibility concept is considered.

9 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202335
202266
202172
202074
201964
201856