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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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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the driving forces for the movement of illegal waste, paying particular attention to the role of local waste regulations, such as the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive.
Abstract: In a stylized model of international trade, a monopolist in the North exports second-hand products to a representative firm in the South to be reused as intermediate goods, with potential trade gains. The degree of reusability of waste products is a crucial choice variable in the North. This is because with a lack of international vigilance, non-reusable waste can be mixed illegally with the reusable waste. I explore the driving forces for the movement of illegal waste, paying particular attention to the role of local waste regulations, such as the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive. Under mild conditions, it is shown that increased regulation stringency in the North leads its firm to reduce the degree of reusability of its products. As a result, the flow of non-reusable waste to the South increases, providing another channel for the Pollution Haven Hypothesis.
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01 Jan 2019TL;DR: In this paper, the type of toxic substances that exist in e-waste, their impact on environment, health of human beings, and management approaches that are being used to manage ewaste in some developed countries are reviewed.
Abstract: We review the type of toxic substances that exist in e-waste, their impact on environment, health of human beings, and management approaches that are being used to manage e-waste in some developed countries. Several tools like Material Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA), and Flow Analysis (MFA) are being used for the management of e-waste in developed countries. Multiple tools working together coherently are required to resolve the e-waste problem.
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TL;DR: Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a legal tool in evolving solid waste management (SWM) systems as mentioned in this paper, which shifts the responsibility of a product to manufacturers/impo...
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08 Sep 2021TL;DR: In this paper, the authors overview the e-waste or waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the EU-27, including the roles in a Circular Economy.
Abstract: This study intended to overview the e-waste or waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the EU-27, including the roles in a Circular Economy. There is a strong linear correlation between WEEE and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, there is no apparent trend when referring to the GDP per capita. A country with the highest GDP per capita (Luxembourg) is not the country with the highest WEEE (Sweden). Absolute GDP and Energy consumption are suggested as the suitable independent variables in estimating the amount of WEEE. Socioeconomic factors are deemed less relevant in determining treatment share, e.g. recycling rate, in the EU-27 countries. Although reuse and recycling are generally viewed as preferable in a circular economy, in some cases, replacing a new product could lead to a lower environmental footprint, whereas customised assessment is highly suggested. Extended producer responsibility targeting waste minimisation and improved recycling/mining approaches are the keys to mitigating the impact of WEEE in the EU-27 further.
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08 Nov 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors emphasize a vision upon PLM as a strategic instrument for concurrent engineering and sustainable product design, basing on the results of a research experiment of implementing a PLM solution within a network composed of technical universities, research institutes and productive enterprises.
Abstract: A lot of specialists, both academia and industrials, agree that nowadays Romanian manufacturing industry is forced to unprecedented transformations, determined by the complex present conditions of European integration. Of course, trends like globalization and products complexity growing, in the sense of their variety, have important impacts upon production and upon all its support functions. Productive companies such as machine manufacturing enterprises usually have to manage a great number of variants in their product portfolios and they also must be agile and achieve short delivery times, as long as most of the customers ask for specific, individually developed solutions, within a fast changing market environment. The present paper comes to emphasize a vision upon PLM as a strategic instrument for concurrent engineering and for sustainable product design, basing on the results of a research experiment of implementing a PLM solution within a network composed of technical universities, research institutes and productive enterprises. In this context, PLM is outstood as a sustaining pillar for the discrete manufacturing in the productive company, entirely able to help in solving the above mentioned problems, no matter that there still exists considerable confusion among the specialists from enterprises as IT users, concerning the usefulness of the related software applications. On the other hand, there is presented in the paper that the concept of Sustainable Product Design must be considered in relation with Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and with the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). The concepts of Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and Recovery of material resources are also nominated as being very important in providing Sustainable Product Design.
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