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The Polluter Pays Principle is a principle in international environmental law where the polluting party pays for the damage done to the natural environment. It is regarded as a regional custom because of the strong support it has received in most Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Community (EC) countries. International environmental law itself mentions little about the principle. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Polluter Pays is a principle in government whereby industries causing pollution or contamination are obliged to pay for their damage to the environment either through directly funding clean-up work or through taxation. ... International environmental law is the body of international law that concerns the protection of the global environment. ... Water pollution Pollution is the release of environmental contaminants. ... Devils Punchbowl Waterfall, New Zealand. ... The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation of those developed countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and a free market economy. ... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ...
Polluter Pays is also known as Extended Polluter Responsibility (EPR). This is a concept that was probably first described by the Swedish Government in 1975. EPR seeks to shift the responsibility dealing with waste from governments to the entities producing it. In effect, it internalises the cost of waste disposal into the cost of the product, theoretically meaning that the producers will improve the waste profile of their products, thus decreasing waste and increasing possibilities for reuse and recycling.
OECD defines EPR as: "a policy in which the producer’s financial and/or physical responsibility for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of the product’s life cycle. It specifically focuses on reducing the environmental impacts of a product at the post-consumer phase. There are two key features to an EPR policy: - the responsibility for a product at its post consumption phase is shifted upstream in the production-consumption chain, to the producer; and - it provides incentives to producers to incorporate environmental considerations into the design of their products"
References
International Law and Naval War: The Effect of Marine Safety and Pollution Conventions during International Armed Conflict, by Dr. Sonja Ann Jozef Boelaert-Suominen (December 2000). http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/npapers/np15/NewportPaperNo15.pdf
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Polluterpaysprinciple.
PolluterPays is a principle in government whereby industries causing pollution or contamination are obliged to pay for their damage to the environment either through directly funding clean-up work or through taxation.
In the United Kingdom it was a common principle applied by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s who generally saw advantages in transferring costs and responsibilities from the public to the private sector.
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