🌍✨ Best of Earth911 Podcast: The Product Stewardship Institute’s Scott Cassel on Growing Extended Producer Responsibility
Why we’re watching: Revisit an influential conversation that anticipated the growth of Extended producer responsibility (EPR), the idea that manufacturers of products and packaging should take responsibility for collecting and recycling the things they make.
It was a hot topic in the sustainability and business worlds in 2023, and has become law in seven states. 💚
One EPR bill had passed in 2023, Washington State’s SB 5144, which requires battery makers to be responsible for the environmental management of their products.
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- 📌 Key signal: Revisit an influential conversation that anticipated the growth of Extended producer responsibility (EPR), the idea that manufacturers of products and packaging should…
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