EnvStud 787 – EPR Policies and Product Design

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EnvStud 787 – EPR Policies and Product Design

Content:

It discusses the Design for Environment impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility policies, and investigates further the extent to which EPR policies can be expected to contribute to .Design for the Environment. improvements.

Course Lecturer: Gerhard Berchtold, PhD

ECTS credits: 6

Coursebook:

ENV/EPOC/WGWPR(2005)9/FINAL

Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 28-Feb-2006

English - Or. English

ENVIRONMENT DIRECTORATE

ENVIRONMENT POLICY COMMITTEE

Working Group on Waste Prevention and Recycling

EPR Policies and Product Design: Economic Theory and Selected Case Studies

This document, prepared by Margaret Walls of Resources for the Future, Washington DC, discusses possible ’Design for Environment’ impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes.

Nils Axel Braathen, Nils-Axel.Braathen@oecd.org

JT03204660

Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d’origine

Complete document available on OLIS in its original format

ENV/EPOC/

This document has been prepared by Margaret Walls of Resources for the Future, WashingtonDC. It discusses the Design for Environment impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility policies. It is underlined that the mandate of the present study was not to undertake a fully-fledged analysis of the social costs and benefits of such policies. For an analytical framework for cost-benefit analyses, the reader is referred to the Analytical Framework for Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility Programmes, prepared by Prof. Stephen Smith of University College London. That framework is available at www.oecd.org/env/waste. The present document investigates further one of the issues raised in that paper, namely the extent to which EPR policies can be expected to contribute to .Design for the Environment. improvements. It has been financed through voluntary contributions from Japan, Switzerland and United States.