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.  Governments find that these schemes can provide a new and flexible approach to redu...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2004
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • EPR Policy Goals and Policy Choices
  • Technical Innovation and EPR Policies
  • EPR and the Cost-sharing Issue
  • Executive Summary
  • Evaluation of EPR Programmes
  • Political Economy for Implementing EPR Policies