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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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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a widely used policy tool that requires producers to assume financial and/or operational responsibility for ensuring their end-of-life products are properly collected and treated as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), a widely used policy tool, requires producers to assume financial and/or operational responsibility for ensuring their end-of-life products are properly collected and treated. EPR implementation in today’s economy, however, poses a change as some basic, underlying assumptions do not hold. Today’s economy challenges assumptions that (1) waste is costly to recover, (2) waste consists only of end-of-life products, and (3) waste is homogenous with respect to its geographic location, design, or condition. In this chapter, we discuss the impact of EPR on waste markets when these assumptions are challenged.

4 citations

01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the Italian e-waste management system with particular focus on how the policy is transposed, how it is received by the stakeholders and whether or not the intended outcomes are actually being reached.
Abstract: As volumes of e-waste (WEEE) are increasing worldwide, the environmental and health impacts caused by this waste stream are leading to rising concern over how it is managed and disposed of. In the European Union this has been addressed by the WEEE Directive, a policy requiring all Member States to have a system for managing e-waste. The revised policy (Directive 2012/19/EU) sets increasingly ambitious targets for countries to achieve. Within this context, this thesis evaluates the Italian WEEE management system with particular focus on how the policy is transposed, how it is received by the stakeholders and whether or not the intended outcomes are actually being reached. The WEEE Directive is transposed differently across all Member States and this leaves questions about how national systems perform and where their weaknesses lie. Using a set of complementary analytical methods, this research evaluates the performance of the Italian system with the use of intervention theory combined with three performance criteria: effectiveness, legitimacy and transparency. The findings of this thesis highlight the areas in which Italian WEEE management is facing challenges and where it is succeeding. On the basis of the findings, recommendations are provided to enhance the system performance in light of the increasingly stringent EU targets. (Less)

4 citations

Book ChapterDOI
30 Jun 2010
TL;DR: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is defined as a policy principle to promote total life cycle environmental improvements of product systems by extending the responsibilities of the manufacturer of a product to various parts involved in the entire life cycle of the product as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Environmental pollution and the diminishing availability of natural resources, as well as pressure from communities and customers impose environmentalfriendly strategies on the part of manufacturers, as well as other public and private organisations, regarding the environmental impact of their production, delivery processes, and the final disposal of their products. Clearly, these strategies are meaningful and sustainable only if they are in full accordance with business strategies. Recycling and remanufacturing strategies are towards this direction, and are in compliance with national and international environmental legislation. For example, there is legislation in force in most EU countries that attributes extended producer responsibility for the full product life cycle. In this line, in 2000, the European Parliament issued a directive requiring its member countries to institute an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program for end-of-life vehicles. EPR is defined as „a policy principle to promote total life cycle environmental improvements of product systems by extending the responsibilities of the manufacturer of the product to various parts involved in the entire life cycle of the product, and especially to the take-back, recycling and final disposal of the product“.

4 citations

01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the progress of electronic waste recycling around the world and emphasises the need to give more economic importance to this sector in the developing nations are considered for determining a model of recycling under the present constraints.
Abstract: This article reviews the progress of electronic waste recycling around the world and emphasises the need to give more economic importance to this sector in the developing nations. Two cases are considered for determining a model of recycling under the present constraints. These alternative models can provide a basic foundation for laying out the respective roles of producers and consumers for economic recycling of this waste. Following the Basel Convention in 1992, measures on the proper disposal and/or recycling of solid waste, particularly those hazardous to the environment, have been one of the prioritised areas of environmental economic a ctivity for the developed nations. A r ecent development (starting around the early 2000s) has been the search for appropriate strategies for disposal of electronic waste (e-waste), and to put forth plans for implementing economic and environmentfriendly recycling of this waste. The importance of the latter has been identified and positive measures undertaken from the perspective of demand and supply in many developed countries as well as in emerging economies like India and China. However, the problem persists in the developing nations: proper disposal of e-waste is still not in practice, let alone accepting an economic and scientific method of recycling it. The backbone of electronic waste recycling is the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme first introduced in Switzerland in 2003. It places the burden of recycling on the producers and hence delineates a recycling market as part of the intermediate goods market of the economy. Most European countries and some south-east Asian nations have followed this model while in California, where recycling has taken on an important role, the consumers have to pay a surcharge. In whatever form the recycling sector is organised, many developed n ations have demarcated a sector which functions smoothly if the relevant agents, i e, the consumers and the producers play their respective roles. For instance, in Cali fornia, a recycling fee is collected from consumers to fund a programme that in turn redistributes recovery and recycling payments to “qualified entities” to cover the costs of collecting and recycling electronic waste (Wolfington and Maranto 2008). In Maine and in Minnesota, it is the “producers pay” (PP) principle in practice. In Maine which was the first US state to introduce the PP principle, Wagner (2009) found that the three year e-waste recycling programme has resulted in a significant decline in disposal and an increase in environmentally sound recycling.

4 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
23 Sep 2014
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the current situation regarding the EU and Italian legislation and the existing tools aimed at sustainable waste management about laws, the Waste Directive (2008) is important because it introduces the concept of prevention in the production of waste as one of the primary objectives In particular, the strategy of waste management should foresee the reduction of the quantity and the hazard level of waste in a perspective of sustainable development This theme also appears transverse to other priority urban aspects such as tourism, energy, transport.
Abstract: Today the theme of waste appears to be one of the priorities at the urban level Every citizen produces about 1 kg of waste per-capita per day, and this value is expected to grow To speak of sustainability for this field, it means to have a new approach to solve this emergency and make the waste a resource The objective of this paper is to present the current situation regarding the EU and Italian legislation and the existing tools aimed at sustainable waste management About laws, the Waste Directive (2008) is important because it introduces the concept of prevention in the production of waste as one of the primary objectives In particular, the strategy of waste management should foresee the reduction of the quantity and the hazard level of waste in a perspective of sustainable development This theme also appears transverse to other priority urban aspects such as tourism, energy, transport Therefore, the developed analysis will be addressed not only to the specific topic of waste but also its possible interactions Among the possible dedicated tools, the Environmental Action Plan (set specifically for the waste) and the plans/programs proposed by the EU can be very important At the Italian level, there are few examples of these tools In particular, in this paper, starting from ongoing research in the Mediterranean area, will propose an “Urban Waste Management Plan”, as a reference tool for the waste management, where the management term considers different phases (collection, transportation, disposal and recovery/valorization) This plan should take into account the environmental, economic and social aspects and the characteristics of each city Moreover, when fully operational, it will have to integrate with the other urban and regional planning tools towards a sustainable and participatory governance for cities that are really smart

4 citations


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