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PDFPune produces 10% of state's e-waste - Times of India
Pune produces 10% of state's e-waste
Times of India
The concept of Extended Producer Responsibility under the E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, makes it mandatory for manufacturers of electronic and electrical equipment to collect e-waste generated after the expiry of their products.
Product Policy Institute Expands Board to Support Growing Producer Responsibility Movement
We've got three great new board members! I'm very excited about what each one of them brings to the organization, MP
Product Policy Institute Expands Board to Support Growing Producer Responsibility Movement
TODAY the Product Policy Institute (PPI) announced it has brought on three new board members to help grow the rising movement for a cradle-to-cradle economy currently sweeping the United States. A key policy driving the transformation is known as extended producer responsibility (EPR), or product stewardship, which shifts physical and financial responsibility for recycling products and packaging away from government to the parties that design them -- manufacturers. The primary goal is incentivizing better design for the environment by internalizing the costs of capturing, reusing and recycling materials that were formerly headed to landfills and waste incinerators.
When PPI started organizing local governments through Product Stewardship Councils to work for state EPR policies in 2004 there were only a handful of producer responsibility recycling laws for discarded products. Today, there are more than 80 state producer responsibility laws in 33 states covering ten categories of products, like electronics, bottles and cans, paint and batteries. And EPR policies are now being proposed for bulky consumer packaging, mattresses and carpet discards.
“With the surge in producer responsibility recycling legislation, PPI needs a large and diverse board that reflects the diversity and breadth of the movement,” said PPI Executive Director Bill Sheehan. “We have recruited three remarkable individuals with significant accomplishments and passion for building a sustainable future. We’re excited about having them on board as the organization begins the next chapter in our development.”
Melissa Walsh Innes (Yarmouth, ME) is an elected State Representative in the Maine Legislature, serving her second term. Serving on Maine’s Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Melissa focuses on promoting the sustainable management of materials through product stewardship, both at the state and national level. Melissa was the sponsor of Maine’s first-in-the-nation Product Stewardship Framework Law of 2010, and currently works with legislators, businesses, NGO’s and consultants around the world to help foster a constructive dialogue in this policy area. Melissa blogs at http://theinneseprreport.blogspot.com/
“I’m very excited about joining the Board of Directors for Product Policy Institute in this very active time for EPR in the US,” said Innes. “I have worked closely with PPI over the last several years, and look forward to helping shape the course of the organization moving forward.”
Mark Hays (Washington, DC) coordinates Public Citizen’s campaign efforts to build public support for a constitutional amendment that would challenge corporate interference in our democracy and overturn precedents set by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC ruling. Before that, Mark spent six years as campaign strategist, researcher and policy analyst for Corporate Accountability International. He led development of the award-winning Think Outside the Bottle Campaign, which has worked to pressure bottled water giants such as Nestle Waters to change practices that impact the environment and people's access to water.
Martin Grohman, LEED AP, (Biddeford, ME) is Director of Sustainability for GAF, North America’s largest roofing manufacturer. In this role he is responsible for both market facing initiatives such as promoting shingle recycling, as well as internal efforts promoting sustainability, such as the Company’s Zero-Waste-to-Landfill effort. Marty is a 1989 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with a BS in chemical engineering. He was the co-founder of Correct Building Products, a manufacturer of composite decking, where he developed one of the industry’s first jobsite scrap takeback programs. The company made the Inc 500 List in 2004 and 2005 and exceeded $30MM in annual sales. In 2009, the company was acquired by GAF, and Marty joined the GAF team. Mr. Grohman is also a trustee of The Betterment Fund, a charitable organization that makes grants in conservation, education, and health care.
Product Policy Institute is a non-partisan research, communication and educational organization promoting policies that advance sustainable production and consumption, and good governance in North America. Founded in 2003, PPI works with stakeholders from all sides to advocate for policies that establish cradle-to-cradle producer responsibility for products and packaging.
Product Policy Institute Expands Board to Support Growing Producer Responsibility Movement
TODAY the Product Policy Institute (PPI) announced it has brought on three new board members to help grow the rising movement for a cradle-to-cradle economy currently sweeping the United States. A key policy driving the transformation is known as extended producer responsibility (EPR), or product stewardship, which shifts physical and financial responsibility for recycling products and packaging away from government to the parties that design them -- manufacturers. The primary goal is incentivizing better design for the environment by internalizing the costs of capturing, reusing and recycling materials that were formerly headed to landfills and waste incinerators.
When PPI started organizing local governments through Product Stewardship Councils to work for state EPR policies in 2004 there were only a handful of producer responsibility recycling laws for discarded products. Today, there are more than 80 state producer responsibility laws in 33 states covering ten categories of products, like electronics, bottles and cans, paint and batteries. And EPR policies are now being proposed for bulky consumer packaging, mattresses and carpet discards.
“With the surge in producer responsibility recycling legislation, PPI needs a large and diverse board that reflects the diversity and breadth of the movement,” said PPI Executive Director Bill Sheehan. “We have recruited three remarkable individuals with significant accomplishments and passion for building a sustainable future. We’re excited about having them on board as the organization begins the next chapter in our development.”
Melissa Walsh Innes (Yarmouth, ME) is an elected State Representative in the Maine Legislature, serving her second term. Serving on Maine’s Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Melissa focuses on promoting the sustainable management of materials through product stewardship, both at the state and national level. Melissa was the sponsor of Maine’s first-in-the-nation Product Stewardship Framework Law of 2010, and currently works with legislators, businesses, NGO’s and consultants around the world to help foster a constructive dialogue in this policy area. Melissa blogs at http://theinneseprreport.blogspot.com/
“I’m very excited about joining the Board of Directors for Product Policy Institute in this very active time for EPR in the US,” said Innes. “I have worked closely with PPI over the last several years, and look forward to helping shape the course of the organization moving forward.”
Mark Hays (Washington, DC) coordinates Public Citizen’s campaign efforts to build public support for a constitutional amendment that would challenge corporate interference in our democracy and overturn precedents set by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC ruling. Before that, Mark spent six years as campaign strategist, researcher and policy analyst for Corporate Accountability International. He led development of the award-winning Think Outside the Bottle Campaign, which has worked to pressure bottled water giants such as Nestle Waters to change practices that impact the environment and people's access to water.
Martin Grohman, LEED AP, (Biddeford, ME) is Director of Sustainability for GAF, North America’s largest roofing manufacturer. In this role he is responsible for both market facing initiatives such as promoting shingle recycling, as well as internal efforts promoting sustainability, such as the Company’s Zero-Waste-to-Landfill effort. Marty is a 1989 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with a BS in chemical engineering. He was the co-founder of Correct Building Products, a manufacturer of composite decking, where he developed one of the industry’s first jobsite scrap takeback programs. The company made the Inc 500 List in 2004 and 2005 and exceeded $30MM in annual sales. In 2009, the company was acquired by GAF, and Marty joined the GAF team. Mr. Grohman is also a trustee of The Betterment Fund, a charitable organization that makes grants in conservation, education, and health care.
Product Policy Institute is a non-partisan research, communication and educational organization promoting policies that advance sustainable production and consumption, and good governance in North America. Founded in 2003, PPI works with stakeholders from all sides to advocate for policies that establish cradle-to-cradle producer responsibility for products and packaging.
Producers to be made responsible for collection of e-waste - domain-B
Producers to be made responsible for collection of e-waste
domain-B
"The concept of Extended Producer Responsibility has been enshrined in these rules to make it a mandatory activity for the manufacturers of electronic and electrical equipments," Natarajan said. The minster also said that the rules specified that ...
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Disposal of E-Waste - Press Information Bureau (press release)
Disposal of E-Waste
Press Information Bureau (press release)
The concept of Extended Producer Responsibility has been enshrined in these rules to make it a mandatory activity for the manufacturers of electronic and electrical equipments. Under this the producers are responsible for collection of e-waste ...
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CT making the bed for mattress-recycling rule - Hartford Business
CT making the bed for mattress-recycling rule
Hartford Business
The bill uses an environmental model called extended producer responsibility, EPR, a principle of the broader concept of product stewardship, in which producers take responsibility for reducing their products' environmental impact, CTMirror.org reports ...
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State could become the first to require recycling of mattresses - The Connecticut Mirror
State could become the first to require recycling of mattresses
The Connecticut Mirror
The bill uses an environmental model called extended producer responsibility, EPR, a principle of the broader concept of product stewardship, in which producers take responsibility for reducing their products' environmental impact.
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'Without monitoring, e-waste handling rules may end up in tokenism' - Hindu Business Line
'Without monitoring, e-waste handling rules may end up in tokenism'
Hindu Business Line
The environmental group said that the rules put the onus of e-waste management on manufacturers or brands through the principle of Extended Producer Responsibility, but there is no target or accountability check. As a result, the rules may not be able ...
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Extended producer responsibility gains traction in the US - The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)
Extended producer responsibility gains traction in the US
The Guardian (blog)
By holding manufacturers responsible for products at the end of their lifecycle, extended producer responsibility (EPR), or product stewardship, has long helped European countries with their waste diversion efforts. The concept has also caught on in ...
'e-waste handling rules need monitoring mechanism' - Hindu Business Line
'e-waste handling rules need monitoring mechanism'
Hindu Business Line
The environmental group said the rules put the onus of e-waste management on manufacturers or brands through the principle of Extended Producer Responsibility, but there is no target or accountability check. As a result, the rules may not be able to ...
How Corporate America Might Just Save Recycling - Forbes
Forbes
How Corporate America Might Just Save Recycling
Forbes
Called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), this legislation would essentially set requirements for companies to collect and recycle a certain percentage of the packaging waste they generate, but would leave how they go about doing it up to the ...
ISPA continues to fight EPR bills in states - BedTimes Magazine
ISPA continues to fight EPR bills in states
BedTimes Magazine
The International Sleep Products Association opposes state-level legislation that would require mattress manufacturers to establish and pay for extended producer responsibility programs to recycle used mattresses. And the association recently took ...
Earth Day 2012: Groups Organize to Bring Recycling into the 21st Century
Happy Earth Day everyone! This is one of PPI's biggest initiatives to create a sustainable economy and zero waste future. Please read more to learn how you can get involved, and thanks, Matt
Earth Day 2012: Groups Organize to Bring Recycling into the 21st Century: New coalition seeks to make manufacturers responsible for collecting and recycling products
TODAY, Forty-two years after the recycling movement began on the first Earth Day, a new coalition launched to “bring recycling into the 21st century” by making manufacturers responsible for collecting and recycling the products and packaging they produce. The CRADLE² Coalition includes more than 30 organizations from around the country, concerned about the squandering of natural resources, the impacts on climate change, and the loss of jobs from wasting valuable, recyclable materials in landfills and incinerators.
“We’ve come together because we’re concerned about the human and environmental impacts of throw-away products and packaging,” said Matt Prindiville, Associate Director of the Product Policy Institute and a co-founder of the new coalition. “We know better products can be designed with people and the planet in mind. Better systems for recovering, reusing and recycling them will revitalize our economy and create jobs in our communities.”
The name of the coalition, CRADLE², comes from the groups’ vision of building a cradle to cradle economy where products and packaging are managed from “cradle to cradle” instead of “cradle to grave.” In this scenario, says Prindiville, “Manufacturers provide and finance collection programs, ensuring that every consumer product and its packaging are reused or recycled, providing American jobs as well as using resources responsibly.”
While CRADLE² is launching on Earth Day, this idea is not new. The policy concept, known as extended producer responsibility (EPR) - also referred to as manufacturer “take-back” or product stewardship - has become one of the dominant policies governing production and solid waste in the European Union, Canada and Japan. Numerous laws around the world now direct manufacturers to set up and finance collection and recycling programs for consumer products and packaging. In the United States, there are more than 80 producer responsibility laws in 33 states, covering 10 different product categories from used paint to unwanted electronics to leftover carpet and more. Twenty-four of these producer responsibility laws are aimed at collecting and recycling electronics, in part because many products contain significant amounts of toxic materials.
“Manufacturer take-back laws prevent toxic pollutants - like lead and mercury in electronics and other products - from ending up in our air and water,” said Laura Haight, Senior Environmental Associate with New York Public Interest Research Group.
“The Texas Legislature voted unanimously for producer take-back recycling for computers,” said Robin Schneider, Executive Director of Texas Campaign for the Environment. “If the good ol’ boys in Texas get it, anyone can.”
CRADLE² points to a new report which asserts that getting US recycling rates up - to levels achieved in much of Europe and many American cities - can lead to millions of new American jobs. According to the Tellus Institute, boosting recycling from our current national rate of 34% to 75% of municipal solid waste, will result in 1.5 million new jobs and result in greenhouse gas and pollution reduction benefits.
“Most people don’t realize that when we throw away our newspaper or soda can, we are actually throwing away American jobs,” said Abby King, Policy Advocate with the Natural Resources Council of Maine. "In order to get to higher recycling rates that can create millions of new jobs, we need manufacturer take-back policies to build infrastructure, encourage entrepreneurial development and help change consumer behavior.”
While producer responsibility laws are aimed at increasing recycling, some products that are typically thrown away can be also reused, including paint. “Paint manufacturers now fund the collection and reuse of unused paint. They even support it,” said Jamie Rhodes, Rhode Island director of Clean Water Action. “Who doesn’t have cans of unused paint stashed somewhere around the house? Our legislature is poised to add paint to the growing list of products covered by take-back policies.”
Over the next several years, CRADLE² plans to build a grassroots movement for producer responsibility and cradle to cradle solutions for better products and less waste.
“Right now, we’re consuming the planet’s resources at a rate which will not allow the next generation to enjoy the same standard of living, or provide them with the same opportunities to live healthy, productive lives on a healthy, productive planet.” said Annie Pham, Policy Advocate with Sierra Club California. “We owe it to our children to deliver goods and services in ways that sustain and even promote the life-support systems of the planet.”
Steering Committee Member Contacts:
Earth Day 2012: Groups Organize to Bring Recycling into the 21st Century: New coalition seeks to make manufacturers responsible for collecting and recycling products
TODAY, Forty-two years after the recycling movement began on the first Earth Day, a new coalition launched to “bring recycling into the 21st century” by making manufacturers responsible for collecting and recycling the products and packaging they produce. The CRADLE² Coalition includes more than 30 organizations from around the country, concerned about the squandering of natural resources, the impacts on climate change, and the loss of jobs from wasting valuable, recyclable materials in landfills and incinerators.
“We’ve come together because we’re concerned about the human and environmental impacts of throw-away products and packaging,” said Matt Prindiville, Associate Director of the Product Policy Institute and a co-founder of the new coalition. “We know better products can be designed with people and the planet in mind. Better systems for recovering, reusing and recycling them will revitalize our economy and create jobs in our communities.”
The name of the coalition, CRADLE², comes from the groups’ vision of building a cradle to cradle economy where products and packaging are managed from “cradle to cradle” instead of “cradle to grave.” In this scenario, says Prindiville, “Manufacturers provide and finance collection programs, ensuring that every consumer product and its packaging are reused or recycled, providing American jobs as well as using resources responsibly.”
While CRADLE² is launching on Earth Day, this idea is not new. The policy concept, known as extended producer responsibility (EPR) - also referred to as manufacturer “take-back” or product stewardship - has become one of the dominant policies governing production and solid waste in the European Union, Canada and Japan. Numerous laws around the world now direct manufacturers to set up and finance collection and recycling programs for consumer products and packaging. In the United States, there are more than 80 producer responsibility laws in 33 states, covering 10 different product categories from used paint to unwanted electronics to leftover carpet and more. Twenty-four of these producer responsibility laws are aimed at collecting and recycling electronics, in part because many products contain significant amounts of toxic materials.
“Manufacturer take-back laws prevent toxic pollutants - like lead and mercury in electronics and other products - from ending up in our air and water,” said Laura Haight, Senior Environmental Associate with New York Public Interest Research Group.
“The Texas Legislature voted unanimously for producer take-back recycling for computers,” said Robin Schneider, Executive Director of Texas Campaign for the Environment. “If the good ol’ boys in Texas get it, anyone can.”
CRADLE² points to a new report which asserts that getting US recycling rates up - to levels achieved in much of Europe and many American cities - can lead to millions of new American jobs. According to the Tellus Institute, boosting recycling from our current national rate of 34% to 75% of municipal solid waste, will result in 1.5 million new jobs and result in greenhouse gas and pollution reduction benefits.
“Most people don’t realize that when we throw away our newspaper or soda can, we are actually throwing away American jobs,” said Abby King, Policy Advocate with the Natural Resources Council of Maine. "In order to get to higher recycling rates that can create millions of new jobs, we need manufacturer take-back policies to build infrastructure, encourage entrepreneurial development and help change consumer behavior.”
While producer responsibility laws are aimed at increasing recycling, some products that are typically thrown away can be also reused, including paint. “Paint manufacturers now fund the collection and reuse of unused paint. They even support it,” said Jamie Rhodes, Rhode Island director of Clean Water Action. “Who doesn’t have cans of unused paint stashed somewhere around the house? Our legislature is poised to add paint to the growing list of products covered by take-back policies.”
Over the next several years, CRADLE² plans to build a grassroots movement for producer responsibility and cradle to cradle solutions for better products and less waste.
“Right now, we’re consuming the planet’s resources at a rate which will not allow the next generation to enjoy the same standard of living, or provide them with the same opportunities to live healthy, productive lives on a healthy, productive planet.” said Annie Pham, Policy Advocate with Sierra Club California. “We owe it to our children to deliver goods and services in ways that sustain and even promote the life-support systems of the planet.”
Steering Committee Member Contacts:
- Matt Prindiville, Product Policy Institute, (207) 236-8603
- Abby King, Natural Resources Council of Maine, (207) 430-0144
- Annie Pham, Sierra Club California, (916) 557-1100
- Jamie Rhodes, Clean Water Action, Rhode Island, (401) 225-3441
- Laura Haight, New Public Interest Research Group, (518) 436-0876
- Lauren Hierl, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, (802) 223-5221
- Lynne Pledger, Clean Water Action, Massachusetts, (413) 477-8596
- Robin Schneider, Texas Campaign for the Environment, (512) 326-5655
- Suellen Mele, Zero Waste Washington, (206) 441-1790
New recycling coalition launches - Solid Waste & Recycling
New recycling coalition launches
Solid Waste & Recycling
“We've come together because we're concerned about the human and environmental impacts of throw-away products and packaging,” says Matt Prindiville, associate director of the Product Policy Institute and a co-founder of the new coalition.
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Coalition forms for extended producer responsibility - Plastics News
Coalition forms for extended producer responsibility
Plastics News
The initial organizations that make up CRADLE² include the Product Policy Institute and eight public-interest organizations that have helped pass EPR legislation in the US: the Sierra Club of California, the New York Public Interest Research Group, ...
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Groups agree on producer responsibility terms - Plastics News
Groups agree on producer responsibility terms
Plastics News
based California Product Stewardship Council; and the Product Policy Institute of Athens, Ga. The groups defined EPR as “a mandatory type of product stewardship that includes — at a minimum — the requirement that the producer's responsibility for their ...
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Groups reach consensus on EPR, packaging terms - Packaging Digest
Packaging Digest
Groups reach consensus on EPR, packaging terms
Packaging Digest
The Product Stewardship Institute, the Product Policy Institute, and the California Product Stewardship Council spent over a year harmonizing concepts and soliciting input from stakeholders from business, government, and public interest organizations ...
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Consensus Definitions for EPR and Product Stewardship
The movement to shift responsibility for spent products and packaging from taxpayers to the producers who design, make and sell them is growing both among leading corporations and state and local governments in the United States. Dozens of new industry programs and state laws to reduce the life cycle impacts of products and packaging have been initiated or adopted in the last decade. The terms, “product stewardship” and “extended producer responsibility” have been used in various ways to describe these activities.
To allow for healthy public discussion, three leading organizations in the product stewardship field recently agreed on a consistent set of definitions. The Product Stewardship Institute, the Product Policy Institute, and the California Product Stewardship Council spent over a year harmonizing concepts and soliciting input from stakeholders from business, government, and public interest organizations across North America. The resulting definitions are consistent with international definitions, but also reflect the progress that has been made in the past decade since the product stewardship movement took off in the U.S. The definitions have been endorsed so far by 48 businesses, stewardship organizations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations and are posted on the websites listed below.
The new definitions replace previous definitions used in the United States over the past decade. Please use these official definitions in any future coverage of these issues:
Product StewardshipProduct Stewardship is the act of minimizing health, safety, environmental and social impacts, and maximizing economic benefits of a product and its packaging throughout all lifecycle stages. The producer of the product has the greatest ability to minimize adverse impacts, but other stakeholders, such as suppliers, retailers, and consumers, also play a role. Stewardship can be either voluntary or required by law.
Extended Producer Responsibility
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a mandatory type of product stewardship that includes, at a minimum, the requirement that the producer’s responsibility for their product extends to post-consumer management of that product and its packaging. There are two related features of EPR policy: (1) shifting financial and management responsibility, with government oversight, upstream to the producer and away from the public sector; and (2) providing incentives to producers to incorporate environmental considerations into the design of their products and packaging.
Want to add the name of your business or organization to the list of endorsers? Go to this link:
• Product Policy Institute
Bill Sheehan, 706-613-0710 bill@productpolicy.org
• Product Stewardship Institute
Scott Cassel, 617-236-4822 scott@productstewardship.us
• California Product Stewardship Council
Heidi Sanborn, 916 706-3420 Heidi@CalPSC.org
Starbucks, Stonyfield Paying Own Recycling Costs as Local Authorities Struggle - Environmental Leader
Environmental Leader
Starbucks, Stonyfield Paying Own Recycling Costs as Local Authorities Struggle
Environmental Leader
Simple economics is driving the trend of “extended producer responsibility,” the article says. As the after-effects of the recession continue to bite, local authorities are short of money and are looking for places to offload costly recycling programs, ...
New organization advocating for US producer responsibility laws - Plastics News
New organization advocating for US producer responsibility laws
Plastics News
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) started 20 years ago as a solution to landfill problems in Europe. Today more than 30 European countries have some type of EPR packaging law, and the concept has been gaining momentum in Canada the past six years.
The International Herald Tribune - Waste Management World
The International Herald Tribune
Waste Management World
Several factors are converging to make what is known as ''extended producer responsibility'' more attractive and, perhaps, more commonplace in the United States. ''Local governments are literally going broke and so are looking for ways to shift the ...
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