product stewardship [ extended product responsibility ]

Extended Producer Responsibility: A Guidance Manual for Governments [ Extended Producer Responsibility ]

extended producer responsibility | EPR [Abbr.]

extended open-response item

set normal response mode extended command | SNRME [Abbr.]

set asynchronous response mode extended command | SARME [Abbr.]

responsible production | sustainable production

meat product extender

control the preparation of mining production records and reports | ensuring mining records are maintained | be responsible for mining records and reports | ensure mining records are maintained

support reparability, durability, and recyclability in product requirements under the next working plans implementing the Ecodesign Directive, taking into account specific requirements of different products; prepare an independent testing programme under Horizon 2020 to help the identification of issues related to potential planned obsolescence; propose requirements making it easier to dismantle, reuse and recycle electronic displays; propose the differentiation of financial contributions paid by producers under an Extended Producer Responsibi ...[+++]lity scheme on the basis of the end-of-life-costs of their products.

In Ontario and in Canada we're using extended producer responsibility, which requires manufacturers to ensure that their products are recycled at end of life, so you're injecting money from those companies into the system to ensure that those materials are properly captured and properly processed. Other ways you can go— As a consumer, I've been paying for that, haven't I?

The EESC embraces the concept of extended producer responsibility, which gets businesses to assume the cost of a product's whole life-cycle, including disposal, and suggests establishing it as "a general principle and basis of legal corporate accountability and responsibility".

32. Takes the view that the 7th EAP should provide for full implementation of waste legislation, including compliance with the waste treatment hierarchy while ensuring coherence with other EU policies; considers that it should set more ambitious prevention, re-use and recycling targets, including a net decrease in waste generation, no incineration of waste that is suitable for recycling or composting with respect to the hierarchy of the Waste Framework Directive, and a strict ban on the dumping of selectively collected waste in landfill,s as well as sectoral objectives for resource efficiency and process efficiency benchmarks; recalls that waste is also a resource and can often also be reutilised, in which case we can ensure the efficient ...[+++] use of resources; invites the Commission to investigate how to make collecting waste from consumer products more efficient both by extending the principle of extended producer responsibility and through guidelines on managing recovery, collection and recycling systems; emphasises the need to invest in the recycling of raw materials and rare earths, since mining, refining and recycling rare earths can have serious consequences for the environment unless managed appropriately;