scholarly journals Enabling Reuse in Extended Producer Responsibility Schemes for White Goods: Legal and Organisational Conditions for Connecting Resource Flows and Actors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Dalhammar ◽  
Emelie Wihlborg ◽  
Leonidas Milios ◽  
Jessika Luth Richter ◽  
Sahra Svensson-Höglund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Waste Streams ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Waste Hierarchy ◽  
Producer Responsibility ◽  
White Goods

AbstractExtended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes have proliferated across Europe and other parts of the world in recent years and have contributed to increasing material and energy recovery from waste streams. Currently, EPR schemes do not provide sufficient incentives for moving towards the higher levels of the waste hierarchy, e.g. by reducing the amounts of waste through incentivising the design of products with longer lifespans and by enhancing reuse activities through easier collection and repair of end-of-life products. Nevertheless, several municipalities and regional actors around Europe are increasingly promoting reuse activities through a variety of initiatives. Furthermore, even in the absence of legal drivers, many producer responsibility organisations (PROs), who execute their members’ responsibilities in EPR schemes, are considering promoting reuse and have initiated a number of pilot projects. A product group that has been identified as having high commercial potential for reuse is white goods, but the development of large-scale reuse of white goods seems unlikely unless a series of legal and organisational barriers are effectively addressed. Through an empirical investigation with relevant stakeholders, based on interviews, and the analysis of two case studies of PROs that developed criteria for allowing reusers to access their end-of-life white goods, this contribution presents insights on drivers and barriers for the repair and reuse of white goods in EPR schemes and discusses potential interventions that could facilitate the upscale of reuse activities. Concluding, although the reuse potential for white goods is high, the analysis highlights the currently insufficient policy landscape for incentivising reuse and the need for additional interventions to make reuse feasible as a mainstream enterprise.

scholarly journals Research on the tax support policy for implementing the Extended Producer Responsibility – Taking End-of-Life Vehicle Collecting and Dismantling Enterprises as an Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Lulu Huo ◽  
Jia Wang ◽  
Yonghe Huang ◽  
Yuke Li ◽  
Wei Pan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Producer Responsibility ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Resource Reuse ◽  
Important System

The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is an important system for improving resource reuse rate and reducing waste pollution to the environment. Aiming at automobile products, this article takes end of-life vehicles collecting and dismantling enterprises as an example. By studying the support from tax support policy, tax incentives are provided to those enterprises that meet safety and environmental protection requirements. In this way, it can guide enterprises to improve safety and environmental protection and reduce corporate pressure from taxation. This article also predicts the effect of energy conservation and environmental protection after the implementation of tax support policy and demonstrates the importance of tax support policy of implementing the EPR.

Stakeholder Views on Extended Producer Responsibility and the Circular Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Kunz ◽  
Kieren Mayers ◽  
Luk N. Van Wassenhove
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Stakeholder Views ◽  
Packaging Waste ◽  
Producer Responsibility

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations require that producers organize and pay for treatment and recycling of waste arising from their products at end of life. EPR has been effective in implementing some aspects of circular economy. In Europe, 35% of e-waste and 65% of packaging waste have already been recycled (or reused in some cases). This article analyzes the challenges of implementing EPR and provides useful insights for what has worked well and what challenges remain. Identifying and addressing these challenges will be crucial for framing legislation that will move industry and society toward a more circular economy.

scholarly journals Energy Recovery through End-of-Life Vehicles Recycling in Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vuk Petronijević ◽  
Aleksandar Đorđević ◽  
Miladin Stefanović ◽  
Slavko Arsovski ◽  
Zdravko Krivokapić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Recycling Process ◽  
The Republic ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

End-of-life vehicle (ELV) recycling is a process that spends energy and could be an energy source as well. This part of energy recovering depends on many different factors related to the broad and local aspects of ELV recycling. The ELV recycling process is consuming energy from different energy sources (electrical, fossil), however, this consumption is lower in relation to energy consumption during the production of new vehicle parts from the very beginning. This article attempts to promote an integrated approach in the analysis of the problem of energy recovery through ELV recycling. Authors aim to analyze the ELV recycling process as an energy generator and to present possibilities for its energy recovery. The research analyses are based on the empirical investigation of ELV recycling in the Republic of Serbia, as a developing country, and on defined statistical model presenting the impact of ELV recycling on energy generation, spending, and conservation during one-year intervals. Research results showed that the higher ELV generation rates may led to a higher energy recovery, and environmental and socio-economic sustainability.

scholarly journals Achieving sustainability in solving the electronic waste (e-waste) problem

2020 ◽  
pp. First
Author(s):  
Sunil Herat
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Design For Environment ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Waste Streams ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Technology Products

Waste from used electrical and electronic equipment, commonly known as e-waste, is growing at a higher rate than the regular municipal waste streams. Global generation of e-waste in 2019 was 53.6 million tonnes. Rising demand for high technology products and their early obsolescence coupled with lack of proper end-of-life management options have all led to unsustainable management of e-waste in many countries. Recycling, design for environment, extended producer responsibility and public-private partnerships (PPPs) are some of the practices attempted by many countries to achieve sustainability in solving the e-waste problem. This paper provides an overview of the practices mentioned above.

scholarly journals Steering extended producer responsibility for electric vehicle batteries

2021 ◽  
pp. 146145292110060
Author(s):  
Louis Dawson ◽  
Jyoti Ahuja ◽  
Robert Lee
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
Battery Management ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Diesel Vehicles ◽  
Producer Responsibility ◽  
The Uk

The UK Government has announced its plans to bring forward the deadline for phasing out all petrol and diesel vehicles from 2040 to 2030, 10 years earlier than planned. This is a radical acceleration in the transition to electric mobility. The need to draw up coherent and robust UK regulatory structures for managing the end-of-life consequences of this transition is now more urgent than ever. This article explores the potential role of extended producer responsibility (EPR) in facilitating the safe and sustainable management of electric vehicle (EV) batteries at their end of life. It outlines the current EV battery problem from the perspective of end-of-life management, before exploring the utility of EPR in achieving a circular economy approach and reviewing the current EPR frameworks that would apply to this waste stream once a battery is no longer powerful enough to drive an EV. We conclude that current EPR frameworks for battery management are neither sufficiently clear nor suitably robust to ensure safe and sustainable electric lithium ion battery management and suggest how these could be remodelled to achieve better outcomes in this area.

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