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Public release date: 30-Apr-2013[ | E-mail |
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Yale journal explores the state of extended producer responsibility
Over the past two decades governments around the world have been experimenting with a new strategy for managing waste. By making producers responsible for their products when they become wastes, policy makers seek to significantly increase the recyclingand recyclabilityof computers, packaging, automobiles, and household hazardous wastes such as batteries, used oil motor, and leftover paintand save money in the process.
This strategy, known as extended producer responsibility (EPR), is the subject of a new special feature in Yale University's Journal of Industrial Ecology. The special feature examines the use of EPR across diverse scalesfrom countries to provinces and statesand investigates work underway in the U.S., the European Union, Canada, China, Brazil and the State of Washington.
"Since its conception in the early 1990s," says Sir Peter Crane, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, "extended producer responsibility has generated both intense enthusiasm and opposition. The analyses in this special feature bring a much needed rigor and sophistication to the understanding of this strategy."
Particular attention is paid to producer responsibility for e-waste including articles that:
- Evaluate the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to improve e-waste processing,
- Assess the adoption of EPR in developing countries,
- Detail the functioning of a "producer responsibility organization" (PRO) that fulfills producer take-back obligations through collection and recycling, and
- Analyze the restructuring of EPR as "individual producer responsibility" (IPR) in order to enhance the incentives for more recyclable products.
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The Journal of Industrial Ecology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, owned by Yale University, published by Wiley-Blackwell and headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Articles in the special feature will be freely downloadable for a limited time at: http://jie.yale.edu/EPR
Reid Lifset of Yale University (U.S.), Atalay Atasu of Georgia Tech (U.S.), and Naoko Tojo of Lund University (Sweden) served as co-editors of the special feature.
Partial support for this special feature was provided by Nestle Waters North America with additional funding from Reverse Logistics Group Americas LLC.
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Public release date: 30-Apr-2013[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Reid Lifset
reid.lifset@yale.edu
203-432-6949
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Yale journal explores the state of extended producer responsibility
Over the past two decades governments around the world have been experimenting with a new strategy for managing waste. By making producers responsible for their products when they become wastes, policy makers seek to significantly increase the recyclingand recyclabilityof computers, packaging, automobiles, and household hazardous wastes such as batteries, used oil motor, and leftover paintand save money in the process.
This strategy, known as extended producer responsibility (EPR), is the subject of a new special feature in Yale University's Journal of Industrial Ecology. The special feature examines the use of EPR across diverse scalesfrom countries to provinces and statesand investigates work underway in the U.S., the European Union, Canada, China, Brazil and the State of Washington.
"Since its conception in the early 1990s," says Sir Peter Crane, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, "extended producer responsibility has generated both intense enthusiasm and opposition. The analyses in this special feature bring a much needed rigor and sophistication to the understanding of this strategy."
Particular attention is paid to producer responsibility for e-waste including articles that:
- Evaluate the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to improve e-waste processing,
- Assess the adoption of EPR in developing countries,
- Detail the functioning of a "producer responsibility organization" (PRO) that fulfills producer take-back obligations through collection and recycling, and
- Analyze the restructuring of EPR as "individual producer responsibility" (IPR) in order to enhance the incentives for more recyclable products.
###
The Journal of Industrial Ecology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, owned by Yale University, published by Wiley-Blackwell and headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Articles in the special feature will be freely downloadable for a limited time at: http://jie.yale.edu/EPR
Reid Lifset of Yale University (U.S.), Atalay Atasu of Georgia Tech (U.S.), and Naoko Tojo of Lund University (Sweden) served as co-editors of the special feature.
Partial support for this special feature was provided by Nestle Waters North America with additional funding from Reverse Logistics Group Americas LLC.
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
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