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.

Promoting Industrial ecology by extended Producer Responsibility- Principles and Practices

Abstract: An important part of the concept of Industrial ecology aims at understanding and improving the metabolic pathways of materials in society. Extended producer responsibility is one of the recent, and indeed important, obligations towards industry and recycling structures. Until now this responsibility has mainly been implemented in the sector of packaging, but there are initiatives to expand to more sectors such as electronic and electrical products as well. What we see when examining the present practices of producer responsibility is that there is developing a complex and comprehensive infrastructure for materials separation and recycling. These efforts are much needed, however, they are to some extent reactive oriented if the manufacturing industries are not also focusing on preventative options related to product design, product environmental quality, product recyclability and product function in the use phase. This paper gives an introduction to the principles of producer responsibility and describes how this is implemented in Norway in terms of recycling efforts and material companies.

Waste Management Reform and Revision of Packaging and Packaging Waste EPR System. The Case of Finland

Abstract: The packaging waste problem was realized a couple decades ago. The effectiveness of waste policy instruments and EPR schemes for packaging and packaging waste is still being discussed in Europe. Finland like other EU Member states has transposed EU waste legislation into the national law. An EPR system for packaging and packaging waste in Finland was introduced in 1997. Plenty of changes to this EPR scheme were set by the new Finnish Waste Act in 2012. The revised waste legislation tries to address defects of the primary EPR system. Unclear allocation of responsibilities between various involved actors, intensified recovery rather than recycling and free-riding problem are among those issues. This thesis aims to explain the development of the Finnish EPR system for packaging waste and to analyze the effectiveness of the scheme. Introduced changes and perceptions of various stakeholders are presented in this paper too. Finally, lessons that could be learned from Finnish case and good experiences from other European EPR systems that might be useful to know are discussed in the end.

Municipal solid waste as a resource: part 1 – specifying composition

Abstract: Waste is a complex societal problem and its management brings together various stakeholders. However, lack of sufficient information on the quantities and types of materials in the waste stream can make sustainable waste management difficult. Since waste in one sector can be valuable as a resource in another, there is a need to understand the distribution of materials within the resource stream, especially those that go to landfill. Current work is seeking to address this: whereas much material is already recycled, this is not the only management option and there remain several problematic materials and components that need to be removed from residual waste. This paper, the first of two case studies, presents a more comprehensive waste composition specification to improve the management of municipal waste. In developing the approach, waste composition specifications currently in use were reviewed and compared with the solid municipal waste collected at community recycling centres and from kerbsides. Key p...

EPR in Korea Updated guidance for efficient waste management

Abstract: Heo, Hyein; Jung, Mun-hee.September, 2016.EPR in Korea,Books,[Paris, France]Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,7

Waste Management Education for Sustainable Islands

Abstract: Waste pollution is environmental problem on an international level that is particularly important to an island which is limited area, as well as where is little management capacity to carry the number of future wastes. This article aims to present the reviewed relevant documents about waste management education; a kind of tool in which to reach the environmental education objectives. These are an increasing of knowledge, awareness, attitude, skills, and participation for all stakeholders in order to reduce the number of waste volume. Two keywords were used to search from the secondary data which are environmental education (EE.) and waste management. The waste management was mainly focused to the education process only on island. The results found that waste management education conducted in all educational systems promoted both children and adults in different processes and settings. For example; educational set, waste management program, learning activities, and waste training manual. Moreover, the designed contents were varieties; such as, waste issues, effects from wastes, waste management, waste disposal, and waste separation by practice. However; not all of them reached the EE objectives. Consequently, this information will be useful for the future research about waste management education in island context.