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Perspectives on Product Stewardship

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 2023

Summary

The massive increase in consumer product waste, its toxicity, and the complexity of materials have created an unbearable financial and management burden for municipal officials—it has become untenable. We have outgrown the era of municipalities being solely responsible for recycling. A paradigm shift is needed.

The concepts of Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Stewardship play a significant role in bringing our consumption of natural resources and emission of greenhouse gases back into balance with the earth’s ability to absorb these impacts.

Perspectives on Product Stewardship provides an overview on managing products throughout their life cycles in order to conserve resources, decrease environmental impact, and share the burden of responsibility. It gives the reader a broad understanding of the origins and evolution of the rapidly expanding field of product stewardship and extended producer responsibility, while providing exemplary and precautionary case studies—on paint, batteries, and packaging.

Informative and timely, this reference will be useful to anyone engaged in, or embarking on, efforts to reduce impacts from consumer products: producers, retailers, waste management professionals, recyclers, governments, environmental advocates, students, and the public.

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Bibliographic data

Edition
1/2023
Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-64143-317-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-64143-318-1
Publisher
Bernan, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
414
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Preface No access
    1. Building Capacity for Product Stewardship in the United States No access
    2. Don’t Let Good Things Go to Waste No access
    3. Producer Responsibility in the United States: Definitions and Core Principles No access
    4. Origins of Producer Responsibility No access
    5. The Global Evolution of Producer Responsibility Policies No access
    6. Creating Effective EPR Laws through a Collaborative Stakeholder Process No access
    7. Implementing EPR Laws and Measuring Progress No access
    1. Paint Stewardship: A US Case Study No access
    2. Battery Stewardship: A US Case Study No access
    3. Packaging EPR in the United States No access
    4. Conclusion No access
  1. Acknowledgments No access Pages 395 - 398
  2. Index No access Pages 399 - 412
  3. About the Author No access Pages 413 - 414

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