Extended Producer Responsibility Updated Guidance for Efficient Waste Management

This report updates the 2001 Guidance Manual for Governments on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), which provided a broad overview of the key issues, general considerations, and the potential benefits and costs associated with producer responsibility for managing the waste generated by their pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2016
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Executive summary
  • Television and computer recycling in Australia
  • Foreword
  • Competition and extended producer responsibility
  • Towards more effective producer responsibility
  • Electronics EPR in the United States
  • The EPR for packaging waste in Japan
  • EPR for used rechargeable batteries in Japan
  • Extended producer responsibility and the informal sector
  • EPR schemes in Colombia
  • EPR for waste of electric and electronic equipment in Canada
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Incentives for eco-design in extended producer responsibility
  • Governance issues and extended producer responsibility
  • Extended producer responsibility - an overview
  • EPR in Korea
  • Recycling of electronic home appliances in Japan
  • 20 years of EPR in France: Achievements, lessons learned and challenges ahead
  • China's e-waste treatment fund
  • EPR for used tyres in Flanders (Belgium)