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Economic Aspects of Extended Producer Responsibility
Author : OECD Staff, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Staff
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published : 2004
ISBN-10 : 9264105263
ISBN-13 : 9789264105263
Number of Pages : 296 Pages
Language : en
Descriptions Economic Aspects of Extended Producer Responsibility
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), a policy approach in which the responsibility of the waste from a consumer good is extended back up to the producer of the good, is developing and expanding in OECD countries. Work on EPR started in 1994 and OECD published an EPR guidance manual in 2001. Governments find that these schemes can provide a new and flexible approach to reduce the upward trend of waste from consumer products. To further analyse the concept, OECD organised a workshop in 11-12 December 2002, which was hosted by the Japanese Ministry of Environment, in Tokyo. This book contains selected papers presented at this workshop. The selected papers specifically addressed the following issues: EPR policy goals; evaluation of the performance of four national EPR schemes; technical innovation Dan EPR policies; political economy for implementing EPR policies; and EPR and cost sharing along the production chain