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Product Stewardship Institute briefs Massachusetts EPR commission; panel agrees on product roadmap and subcommittees
Summary
Scott Cassell of the Product Stewardship Institute gave an overview of extended producer responsibility (EPR) and the commission agreed on a working roadmap prioritizing paint, mattresses, lithium-ion batteries, electronics and plastics/packaging, and to form subcommittees for the more complex categories.
The Product Stewardship Institute's founder, Scott Cassell, told the Massachusetts EPR Commission that extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws shift financial and managerial responsibility for post-consumer products and packaging from governments to producers, and described elements that effective EPR laws commonly include.
"EPR is a law that extends a producer's financial and managerial responsibility for its products and packaging beyond the manufacturing stage," Cassell said in a prepared overview of the policy model. He described full EPR as producer-funded and producer-managed systems that set performance goals, create stewardship plans, and establish producer responsibility organizations to implement…
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