TY - BOOK ID - 7911315 TI - Extended Producer Responsibility : A Guidance Manual for Governments AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development AU - Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development PY - 2001 SN - 926418600X 9786610029860 1280029862 9264189866 PB - Paris : OECD Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - #SBIB:35H434 KW - #A0202A KW - 552 Afvalstoffen KW - Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening KW - Environment. KW - Industries KW - Social responsibility of business KW - Environmental aspects KW - Business KW - Corporate accountability KW - Corporate responsibility KW - Corporate social responsibility KW - Corporations KW - CSR (Corporate social responsibility) KW - Social responsibility, Corporate KW - Social responsibility of industry KW - Business ethics KW - Issues management KW - Industrial production KW - Industry KW - Economics KW - Social responsibility KW - Social aspects KW - Environment KW - Industries, Primitive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7911315 AB - Municipal waste has increased 22 % per capita from 1980 to 1997. At the same time, the difficulty of siting new waste disposal facilities has increased. While major progress has been made to lessen the per capita generation of air and water pollution over the past decades, waste generation is still on the rise. Faced with the increase of waste, many governments have reviewed available policy options and concluded that placing the responsibility for the post-consumer phase of certain goods on producers could provide a means to relieve certain environmental pressures, arising from post-consumer waste. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach under which producers accept significant responsibility - financial and/or physical - for the treatment or disposal of post-consumer products. Assigning such responsibility could provide incentives to prevent wastes at the source, promote product design for the environment and support the achievement of public recycling and materials management goals. Within the OECD the trend is towards the extension of EPR to new products, product groups and waste streams such as electrical appliances and electronics. This guidance manual represents one means to inform national governments about the potential benefits and costs associated with EPR. ER -