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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. |