“20 years Waste Management, Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Policy”
September 14-15, 2011, Dresden art’otel
The implementation of the German Packaging Ordinance in June 1991 was a turning point in the traditional distribution of responsibilities and ownership in waste management. The underlying concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR) aims at including social and environmental life-cycle-costs of a product into the product price and at providing incentives for producers to consider end-of-life aspects already in the product design. Ever since, EPR gained in importance as a key policy tool. By now, important waste streams, such as Packaging Waste, End-of-Life Vehicles, Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment and Batteries, are regulated under producer responsibility schemes with the objective of developing waste management into a resource efficient material management tool.
20 year after the first experiences, this conference will assess success and failure of EPR schemes in practice:
- Do EPR schemes achieve their economic and ecologic targets in times of changing raw material markets?
- Do EPR schemes contribute to a circular economy?
- What are better alternatives?
- How can EPR be developed further?
In short: EPR – Quo vadis?
Day 1: 20 years extended producer responsibility – future instruments for waste prevention and recycling (in German only)
Day 2: Globalization in waste management – New roles and perspectives for producer (English)
