Extended Producer Responsibility 🏭 - How Can It Help Recycling?

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Act one: in our regular videos we cover ways to recycle lots of materials - from cans and bottles to tyres, mattresses and much more.

Obviously when an item is recycled - someone has to collect, separate and recycle the item in a large facility. Of course - someone has to pay for this entire process - and most often it is either the tax payer - or the business dumping the rubbish.

However - when a company manufacturers a product - should they take in consideration how it will be recycled - and whether it can be recycled at all? At the end of the day - will companies who make products actually invest in easier to recycle designs - if they have no legal or financial reason to do so?

In recent years - many companies have proposed making easier to recycle items - but not all have come on stream as quickly as we would like. What can be done?.

Act 2 -

This is where the concept of EPR comes in. EPR stands for Extended Producer Responsibility - and pretty much is what it says on the tin.

The idea is that a manufacturer takes responsibility for the way the item is disposed of and recycled. To date - manufacturers have had to ensure the item is safe, reliable and non hazardous to users - but really, once it was dumped - the responsibility ended.

This can also be known as Product Stewardship or Producer Pays recycling.

The concept of EPR - aims to make manufacturers consider how the product will be treated at the end of its life.

Obviously - there is a huge variety of approaches that could be taken as regards EPR - from simple guidance or voluntary schemes - i.e. sometimes suspected of being a form of green washing - to quite stringent Government backed schemes.


Act 3 -you may be asking - do we have any EPR schemes in Australia.

The answer is yes. Australia has schemes covering items as diverse as tyres, TVs and mattresses.

The National Television And Computer Recycling Scheme - aims to recycle 80% of TVs and computers.

Mattresses can be recycled through the Soft Landing program.

Mobile phones through Mobile Muster.

Fluorescent lights through Fluoro Cycle

Paints through Paintback

Tyres through TyreStewardship Australia

Act 4 - so what about the most common items like packaging, bottles, coffee pods and similar items.

To date - there has been limited progress on these very common items beyond purely voluntary covenants - that can be argued to just serve as marketing for major corporates.

Over the next few years - we certainly expect EPR to greatly increase - with legislation ensuring manufacturers are incentivised to find and use better and easier to recycle materials.

At the end of the day - companies tend to act in a way that benefits their long time profits - and we need to ensure that recycling is aligned with this outcome.

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