EPR – Extended Producer Responsibility
Around the world, more and more waste is ending up in the environment. People are throwing away a lot, but there’s not enough funding and expertise in sustainable waste management. Policy makers and civil society are trying to solve this problem through something called Extended Producer Responsibility, or EPR. EPR holds companies more responsible for the impacts of what they produce by requiring them to finance, and often also manage, the recycling, reuse, or disposal of their products and packaging. So EPR is a way to demand that the producers who profit from products take responsibility for cleaning them up.
Neste webinar, gravado no dia 14 de Outubro de 2021, foi discutida A Lei de Embalagens com Inclusão Social da FACCyR, Argentina.
Produzida pela Aliança Global de Catadores e Catadoras de Recicláveis (Globalrec) e pela WIEGO, esta série procura entender como a crescente adoção de políticas e sistemas EPR em todo o mundo pode ameaçar ou melhorar a subsistência de catadores informais que tradicionalmente têm sido atores-chave na reciclagem e reutilização de materiais.