Editing Extended producer responsibility (section)

{{short description|Strategy designed to promote the integration of environmental costs associated with goods}}
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[[File:Alte Fabrik Finkemeier 002.jpg|thumb|Tires are an example of products subject to extended producer responsibility in many industrialized countries.]]
'''Extended producer responsibility''' ('''EPR''') is a strategy to add all of the estimated [[environmental costs]] associated with a product throughout the [[product life cycle]] to the [[market price]] of that product, contemporarily mainly applied in the field of [[waste management]].<ref name=":4">{{cite book |author-last=OECD |title=Extended Producer Responsibility: A Guidance Manual for Governments |publisher=OECD Publications Service |date=2001 |isbn=978-9-26418986-7 |location=Paris, France |doi=10.1787/9789264189867-en}}</ref> Such societal costs are typically [[externalities]] to market mechanisms, with a common example being [[Effects of the car on societies#Public or external costs|the impact of cars]].

Extended producer responsibility legislation is a driving force behind the adoption of remanufacturing initiatives because it "focuses on the end-of-use treatment of consumer products and has the primary aim to increase the amount and degree of product recovery and to minimize the environmental impact of waste materials".<ref>{{cite journal |author-last1=Johnson |author-first1=Michael R. |author-last2=McCarthy |author-first2=Ian P. |date=2014-10-01 |title=Product recovery decisions within the context of Extended Producer Responsibility |journal=Journal of Engineering and Technology Management |series=Engineering and Technology Management for Sustainable Business Development |volume=34 |pages=9–28 |doi=10.1016/j.jengtecman.2013.11.002}}</ref>

Passing responsibility to producers as [[polluter]]s is not only a matter of [[environmental policy]] but also the most effective means of achieving higher [[Standardization#Environmental protection|environmental standards]] in [[sustainable design|product design]].<ref>{{cite journal |author-last1=Nakajima |author-first1=Nina |author-last2=Vanderburg |author-first2=Willem H. |date=December 2006 |title=A Description and Analysis of the German Packaging Take-Back System |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0270467606295193 |journal=Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society |language=en |volume=26 |issue=6 |pages=510–517 |doi=10.1177/0270467606295193 |issn=0270-4676}}</ref>