Perspectives on Product Stewardship
Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
recycled paint recycling retailers reuse waste management waste management service providers waste streams EPR batteries circular economy consumer products electronics environmental advocacy environmental policy extended producer responsibility green business greenhouse gas emissions manufacturers mattresses packaging packaging waste pharmaceuticals product lifecycle product stewardship product-oriented pollution prevention- i–xiv Preface i–xiv
- 1–240 Part I 1–240
- 241–394 Case Studies 241–394
- 395–398 Acknowledgments 395–398
- 399–412 Index 399–412
- 413–414 About the Author 413–414