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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 paper, the costs and benefits of recycling from the perspective of local authorities are compared for Portugal, Belgium and Italy (in Lombardia region), adopting the same economic-financial methodology.
Abstract: Local authorities are generally in charge of household packaging waste management operations, particularly in countries with Green Dot schemes or similar extended producer responsibility systems. This leads to the need of establishing a system of financial transfers between the packaging industry and the local authorities (regarding the costs involved in selective collection and sorting). In the present study, the costs and benefits of recycling, from the perspective of local authorities, are compared for Portugal, Belgium and Italy (in Lombardia region), adopting the same economic–financial methodology. The results show that the industry is not paying the net cost of packaging waste management. If the savings attained by diverting packaging waste from other treatment operations are not considered, it seems that the industry should increase the financial support to local authorities. However, if the avoided costs with other treatments are considered as a benefit for local authorities, the costs are genera...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a study of industrial waste production and management in the metropolitan area of Granada (Spain), and analyzed its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
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TL;DR: The article discusses the limitations of waste-based key figures and shows the need for more process-oriented indicators, as part of the development of national waste prevention programs, and the relevance of different barriers that have to be overcome in order to make prevention an effective top priority in the waste hierarchy.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors find that Product Takeback (PTB) policies are not feasible for entire buildings, but many building materials and components are candidates for reuse and recycling, while economic instruments can also be used to promote EPR for buildings, while information instruments are not as effective.
Abstract: Buildings use large amounts of materials and produce much waste. Some building materials are recycled, but most become waste. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies require producers to be responsible for their products after their useful life. The basic drivers of EPR are reduced pollution and resource and energy use over a product’s life cycle. For buildings, EPR provides an opportunity to divert additional waste away from landfills and into reuse and recycling. Energy shortages and pollution prevention are concerns at regional and global levels, while material shortages occur in some regions. EPR can be achieved through regulatory, economic, or information instruments. Product takeback (PTB) is a regulatory instrument that requires producers to take back products at the end of their useful life and reuse or recycle them. This paper finds that PTB policies are not feasible for entire buildings, but many building materials and components are candidates for reuse and recycling. Using recycled materials may save energy, reduce virgin material use, and prevent pollution. Economic instruments can also be used to promote EPR for buildings, while information instruments are not as effective.
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TL;DR: The awareness in people for handling obsolete electronic products is discussed and a green framework for e-waste handling is suggested, defining the need of green manufacturing and its approaches which can lead to solutions for WEEE.
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