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Encyclopedia > Extended producer responsibility

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).


EPR has been implemented in many forms, which may be classified into three major approaches:


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Strategies for Extended Producer Responsibility (1016 words)
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is an emerging principle for a new generation of pollution prevention policies that focus on product systems instead of production facilities.
Producers accept their responsibility when they accept legal, physical or economic responsibility for the environmental impacts that cannot be eliminated by design.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) focuses on the responsibility that producers assume for their products at the end of their useful life, or post-consumer stage.
Extended Producer Responsibility - UNEP P & C (453 words)
Extended producer responsibility is an important approach to reconcile environmental protection and economic growth.
This page describes Extended Producer Responsibility as a measure many OECD governments took to expand private sector responsibility for conserving resources and energy and reducing the amount of pollutant released and wastes sent to final disposal.
Responsible Care is the chemical industry's voluntary environmental, health and safety initiative and performance improvement initiative.
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