Extended producer responsibility: How to unlock the environmental and economic potential of plastic packaging waste?

2020 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 105030
Author(s):  
Susanna Andreasi Bassi ◽  
Alessio Boldrin ◽  
Giorgia Faraca ◽  
Thomas F. Astrup
Keyword(s):  
Economic Potential ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Plastic Packaging ◽  
Packaging Waste ◽  
Producer Responsibility

Effectiveness of extended producer responsibility policies implementation: The case of Portuguese and Spanish packaging waste systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 217-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Rubio ◽  
Tânia Rodrigues Pereira Ramos ◽  
Manuel Maria Rodrigues Leitão ◽  
Ana Paula Barbosa-Povoa
Keyword(s):  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Packaging Waste ◽  
Producer Responsibility

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 Post-Consumer plastic packaging waste management in Indonesia: a producer responsibility approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 325 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Siti Kardian Pramiati ◽  
Tri Edhi Budhi Soesilo ◽  
Haruki Agustina
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Product Packaging ◽  
Packaging Waste ◽  
Producer Responsibility

In a country with a large and diverse population such as Indonesia, the waste problem is difficult to solve, especially in urban areas. The growth of the population in urban areas has been accompanied by their rapid development of infrastructure and industrial growth. The dynamic lifestyle of urban communities changes their consumption behavior to products that are more practical in packaging. There are fundamental things that arise in the waste management system in Indonesia, including limited waste management capacity in the regions, inadequate infrastructure, implementation of regulations, and a lack of public concern, including the manufacturing industry, on waste management issues. Through the approach of the concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR). However, EPR concept implementation in developing countries is still lacking, where the collection and recycling system has not been adequately addressed. On the other hand, the industrial sector does not yet have enough attention to expand its product responsibilities for the post-consumption stage. This article presents an overview of current practices of post-consumer packaging waste management through an extended producer responsibility mechanism in Indonesia. More specifically, this study focused on consumer goods manufacturing industries. Based on the literature study, various industrial efforts have been shown to adopt the EPR concept in handling its product packaging waste.

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.

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