Does Extended Producer Responsibility Improve Eco-Innovation: An Empirical Study of Product Take-Back Programs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqi Peng ◽  
Yan Dong ◽  
Sriram Venkataraman ◽  
Sining Song
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Producer Responsibility

An Empirical Study on Extended Producer Responsibility in Auto-Manufacturing Industry

2011 ◽  
Vol 225-226 ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Yi Wu ◽  
Xiao Han Hu ◽  
Jing Nie
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Principle Component Analysis ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Principle Component ◽  
Producer Responsibility ◽  
Managerial System

Extended producer responsibility has become an important managerial system to dematerialize our economy. This paper aims to verify the five promotional factors of extended producer responsibility, and to investigate its applicability in the auto-manufacturing industry. A questionnaire survey has been conducted in the auto-maufacturing industry, followed by principle component analysis and description analysis of the data collected. As a result, five promotional factors have been verified and auto-manufacturing industry is proved a promising industry in terms of EPR implementation. Future strategies are put forward based on the promotional factors.

scholarly journals Enabling Reuse in Extended Producer Responsibility Schemes for White Goods: Legal and Organisational Conditions for Connecting Resource Flows and Actors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Dalhammar ◽  
Emelie Wihlborg ◽  
Leonidas Milios ◽  
Jessika Luth Richter ◽  
Sahra Svensson-Höglund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Waste Streams ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Waste Hierarchy ◽  
Producer Responsibility ◽  
White Goods

AbstractExtended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes have proliferated across Europe and other parts of the world in recent years and have contributed to increasing material and energy recovery from waste streams. Currently, EPR schemes do not provide sufficient incentives for moving towards the higher levels of the waste hierarchy, e.g. by reducing the amounts of waste through incentivising the design of products with longer lifespans and by enhancing reuse activities through easier collection and repair of end-of-life products. Nevertheless, several municipalities and regional actors around Europe are increasingly promoting reuse activities through a variety of initiatives. Furthermore, even in the absence of legal drivers, many producer responsibility organisations (PROs), who execute their members’ responsibilities in EPR schemes, are considering promoting reuse and have initiated a number of pilot projects. A product group that has been identified as having high commercial potential for reuse is white goods, but the development of large-scale reuse of white goods seems unlikely unless a series of legal and organisational barriers are effectively addressed. Through an empirical investigation with relevant stakeholders, based on interviews, and the analysis of two case studies of PROs that developed criteria for allowing reusers to access their end-of-life white goods, this contribution presents insights on drivers and barriers for the repair and reuse of white goods in EPR schemes and discusses potential interventions that could facilitate the upscale of reuse activities. Concluding, although the reuse potential for white goods is high, the analysis highlights the currently insufficient policy landscape for incentivising reuse and the need for additional interventions to make reuse feasible as a mainstream enterprise.

‘Our Waste, our Resources; A Strategy for England’– Switching to a circular economy through the use of extended producer responsibility

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-218
Author(s):  
Louis Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Food Environment ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Legislative Agenda ◽  
Producer Responsibility ◽  
Polluter Pays Principle ◽  
Potential Use

High landfill rates compared with flatlining rates of recycling have ensured that waste disposal is once again on the legislative agenda in England. In 2018, the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs published ‘Our Waste, Our Resources: A Strategy for England’ which is the first major policy publication on waste since 2013. Encouraged by the release of this Strategy, this article examines the potential use of extended producer responsibility and the ‘polluter pays’ principle to fuel the transition to a circular economy.

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