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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Extended Producer Responsibility"”.
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Extended producer responsibility and comparative advantage
Extended producer responsibility is a business strategy whereby a firm assumes responsibility for the environmental impacts of a product throughout its entire lifecycle. By taking such responsibility, a firm realizes an incentive to design environmentally preferable products that are easier to …
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Making Sense of Extended Producer Responsibility: Towards a framework for policy transfer
… no exception in the interspatial learning about extended producer responsibility (EPR) programmes. This thesis aims to transcend this shorthand approach to policy transfer. It combines the evaluations of EPR programmes for the management of end-of-life vehicles (ELV) and waste electrical and …
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Enhancing municipal solid waste management through incorporation of extended producer responsibility in Lusaka Zambia.
The visionary concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR) policy advocates a system that aims to increase waste recovery and recycling. Extended producer responsibility policies have been widely adopted since the 1990’s, particularly in developed countries as an effective instrument for …
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Enhancing municipal solid waste management through incorporation of extended producer responsibility in Lusaka Zambia.
The visionary concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR) policy advocates a system that aims to increase waste recovery and recycling. Extended producer responsibility policies have been widely adopted since the 1990’s, particularly in developed countries as an effective instrument for …
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Extended Producer Responsibility in Cleaner Production: Policy Principle to Promote Environmental Improvements of Product Systems
… attention has been devoted to the concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR) and today this concept is spread to most OECD countries and also outside this group of countries. This dissertation shows how the concept was developed, presents a model for various types of responsibilities …
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Co-opting sustainabilities : the transformative politics of labor and extended producer responsibility under Brazil's national solid waste policy
… of wasted material in a sustainable manner. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are policy frameworks that hold accountable the manufacturers of goods that create post-consumer waste. National and state governments typically prescribe EPR through …
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Industry perceptions of South African Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Regulations: Challenges and opportunities for the paper and packaging industry
… products. South Africa recently introduced the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Regulations to address the problems of waste management in the country. The EPR has now emerged and is now recognised worldwide as an effective and efficient waste management principle that promotes reuse and …
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Advancing the Frontier of Extended Producer Responsibility: The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in non-OECD countries
… of these countries. This research finds that extended producer responsibility (EPR), a policy principle that underpins WEEE programmes in many OECD countries, can help solve the WEEE problem in non-OECD countries by putting the onus on the producers to ensure environmentally sound management …
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Harvesting the plastic we have sowed : costs and challenges in, and a novel application of blockchain for implementing extended producer responsibility in Chile
… peri-urban areas are disproportionately large producers of solid waste in an increasingly landfilled world with plastic-choked oceans. Managing waste sustainably remains a challenge, and an expensive one, often comprising 20%-50% of municipal budgets. In the last 25 years, Extended Producer …
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Introducing loop-closure for phosphates into a provincial development strategy: An analysis of overlaps of primary and secondary phosphate processing technologies
… regarding key considerations when implementing extended producer responsibility schemes. With the assumptions that are detailed in Chapter 3, the results of Chapter 4 reveal that it should be possible, from a technical standpoint, to integrate struvite into existing phosphoric acid generation …
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Undead Bed: Mattress Recycling in Boston
… legislature is working on passing an EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) bill for mattress waste. This bill would require the mattress industry to administer and manage mattress end-of-life programs across the state. In the meantime, the City of Boston is preparing to implement a …
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Reconciling Twin Transitions with sustainability. A Circular Economy perspective.
… consumption; 2) review of the literature on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) to investigate its rationale, policy makers expectations and, focusing on the specific case of electronic waste, its impacts in environmental and innovation terms; 3) empirical analysis of the relationship …
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Evaluating electronic waste recycling systems : the influence of physical architecture on system performance
… have been proposed including landfill bans, extended producer responsibility (EPR) and advance recovery fee (ARF) funded recycling systems. In order for policymakers and system architects to establish the optimal recycling system for their location, they need to know how to evaluate the …
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Energy Transition Challenges: Solar PV Module and Wind Turbine Waste in South Africa to 2050
… of public and industry awareness and, despite Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation introduced in 2021, several uncertainties remain that may impact the effectiveness of RE waste management. Moreover, the magnitude of anticipated waste streams up to 2050 has yet to be rigorously …
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Analysis of electronic waste management practices in the mining industry of Zambia (case study of first quantum minerals limited and dangote cement Zambia limited).
… management system and introduction of EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) and green procurement.
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Analysis of electronic waste management practices in the mining industry of Zambia (case study of first quantum minerals limited and dangote cement Zambia limited).
… management system and introduction of EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) and green procurement.
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Towards the sustainable management of electronic waste in Nigeria: South Africa as a model
… encapsulated through a concept known as the 'Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)' approach. The EPR approach, which is based on the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) places legal, financial, informative and physical(including environmental) responsibility on producers of EEE, from …
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Bringing in the Garbage: Opening a Critical Space for Vehicle Disposal Practices
This dissertation examines the relationship among practices and policies of waste/ing and economic structures to make visible the implications of vehicle disposal policies for environmental policy and theory. Consequently, I attempt to build upon the small body of literature that is now critically …
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The Effect of Uncertain End-of-Life Product Quality and Consumer Incentives on Partial Disassembly Sequencing in Value Recovery Operations
… recovery and sustainability to manufacturers. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Product Stewardship (PS) policies are, globally, changing the way products are treated during their use-life and EoL. Each new policy places a greater responsibility on consumers and manufacturers to …
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Inclusion of leakage into life cycle management of products involving plastic as a material choice
… activities at end-of-life as part of their extended producer responsibility. Thus, the extent to which these strategies address plastic pollution is limited. Furthermore, value-chain actors reported varied approaches to product prioritisation for intervention which are often not grounded in …
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