• Producer
responsibility is in effect a new policy tool for pollution prevention and waste / resource use
minimisation usually
translated into practice via legally enforceable product take back systems. It is characterised by e.g:
·Responsibility
placed on producers for take back of the product at the end-of-life stage (i.e. waste) including financial
responsibility for the establishment
and functioning of the take back schemes and for dealing with the end-of-life products
·Bans
on disposal to landfill / incineration; restrictions on utilisation of energy recovery
·Targets
for recovery / recycling of EOL products (usually with a high recycling quotient), with prescriptive conditions
governing methods of treatment
·Prescription
of standards for minimum recycled content for new products
·Reporting
requirements, monitoring provisions and information disclosure
·Bans
/ Phase out of hazardous substances and material bans &
restrictions
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