a requirement that the original producer of an item is responsible for ensuring its proper disposal.
A notion that places responsibility on producers and focuses primarily on post-consumer waste disposal. Manufacturer "take-back" requirements are the policy lever most often associated with Extended Producer Responsibility.
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy that imposes producer accountability over the entire lifecycle of its products, including the stages after consumption. The strategy’s aims are: 1) to shift the physical and economic responsibility of end-of-life products upstream to the producer; and 2) to give the producer an incentive for considering the environment starting at a product’s design stage. In March 2001, the OECD published an EPR Guidance Manual for its member countries to provide guidelines for creating a recycling-based society. Back to glossary index
In simple terms Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is about extending the responsibility of producers for the total life-cycle environmental impacts of the products they manufacture, import, distribute or refill. In practice the focus has been on making producers more responsible for the wastes generated by their products when they reach end-of-life (EOL) and are discarded. Ferrous Metals Metal containing iron (such as steel) insufficient quantities to allow for magnetic separation.
An approach to reconcile economic growth with greater business responsibility for conserving resources and energy, and reducing pollution and waste
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a strategy designed to promote the integration of environmental costs associated with products throughout their life cycles into the market price of the products (OECD 1999).