5 more slides on epr and how it works
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Extended Producer Responsibility
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What is Extended Producer Responsibility?
Extended Producer Responsibility or EPR is a central
tenet of product stewardship. EPR means the
companies who make a product have a responsibility
for their goods at the “end of life”
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Extended Producer Responsibility shifts the financial burden of these programs
Government Businesses
This public money can than be better spent on education or infrastructure rather than managing unused paint or old tires
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The Old Way:Government- managed
programs
Government responsibility
Visible ‘deposits’ customers saw on their receipts (ex. tires)
This public money could be better spent on education or infrastructure rather than managing unused paint or tires
The New Way: Businesses manage
costs
Businesses responsible
Cost of safe management included in the product’s cost (like marketing costs)
Extended Producer Responsibility
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How does it work?
Here’s one example of a program in Nebraska as one model for how it can work: Call2Recycle
Call2Recycle
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In this program individual battery manufacturers pay a license fee to Call2Recycle(essentially splitting the costs between the different manufacturers)
License fee
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Then Call2Recycle handles all the administration & pays all costs associated with collecting & recycling batteries
Municipals
• Existing collection sites serving as collection sites are reimbursed
• New sites are set up
retail• retail locations serve
as collection points at no cost to them
Call2Recycle
Call2Recycle reimburses collection sites
Make same
changes
here as on
the fact
sheet.
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This is just one model and there are a number of models already operating across the United States
We can learn from programs that are already in place
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Another take-back program operating:
Compact Florescent Light (CFL)
All Home Depot stores, and several other hardware stores accept used CFLs in kiosks
the front of their stores
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Here’s how it works:
Customer purchases CFL in a hardware
store
Light bulb is used at home
Hardware store collects returned
bulbs & sends them to a
recycling facility
Recovered materials can
make new bulbs
“We believe that The Home Depot is a true member of the communities where we live and work
and we demonstrate our leadership by making the environment a core part of our business – from
the products we offer to the programs we support and especially our commitment to saving
energy with CFL bulbs,” Annette Verschuren, The Home Depot.
Bulbs can be returned to any
store that collects them
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Isn’t this going to cost more?
You are already paying for it.
Taxpayers pay all
WM costs
Producers share
WM costs
Current System
EPR System
EPR shifts waste management costs from the public to the private sector
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EPR doesn’t necessarily change the way consumers handle their goods when they no longer need them and it doesn’t necessarily require an entirely new infrastructure.
Many EPR programs
continue to use existing
collecting infrastructure and
reimburse municipalities
collecting their goods.
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EPR shifts waste management costs from the public to the
private sector
We are all both taxpayers and consumers, but with EPR, we shift the responsibility to the manufacturers to internalize the costs of managing their products.
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meaning that your tax dollars can go to
meet other needs in the community –
besides cleaning up after people’s consumer products.
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EPR is already happening
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Many major retailers are already taking back
goods they sell Reasons retailers have embraced these programs:
- to get more customers into the store
- to build customer loyalty by offering additional services
-because they recognize the environmental need to keep their products out of landfills
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Take Advantage of Existing Programs
Use these companies’ collection programs • Call2Recycle
• Thermostat Recycling
Corp.
• End of Life Vehicle
Solutions
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But what can we do now?
1. Take advantage of voluntary programs
already exist
2. Urge major retailers who have take-back
programs in other parts of the country to
start one where you live