1. Product Stewardship: National Trends Kate Hagemann Product Stewardship Institute Advancing Recycling & Organics Management: A Sustainable Future March 29, 2010
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3. Product stewardship means looking at the impact of a product: from the time it is raw materials until it is discarded Raw Materials Manufacturing Transportation Retail Use Disposal/Recycling
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5. EPR shifts the financial burden of select waste management programs Government Private Sector
6. EPR shifts the costs off of government, however, government may continue to collect.
18. State Legislative Momentum EPR Laws & EPR 2010 Legislation February 25, 2011 60+ EPR laws in 32 states (including laws on carpet, cell phones and agricultural pesticide containers) 2 2 9 9 14 23*
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27. New Jersey March 29, 2011 Programs in place: three
28. EPR Laws & Legislation in the North East March 29, 2011 NJ NY CT RI MA NH VT ME Framework Bill Bill Bill Bill M Beverage Container Deposit M M M M M Electronics M M M M Bill M M Certain Household Batteries M M Bill M M Auto Switches M Bill M M M M Motor Oil Bill M Thermostats Bill Bill M Bill M M M Paint Bill Bill Bill Bill Bill Fluorescent lamps Bill Bill Bill M Pharmaceuticals Bill Bill Bill Medical Sharps Bill Packaging/Printed Materials Bill Cell Phones Bill Bill
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33. What can local governments do to promote product stewardship? 4. Raise awareness / educate your management 5. Reach out to retailers to build support, encourage them to collect 6. Reach out to manufacturers to ensure they implement their national programs in your community
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Each program & roles and responsibilities varies tremendously by product – but there are certain unifying principles Will talk about performance goals later
Principles: Cost internalization Shared responsibility manufacturers have greatest role to play Lifecycle costs Performance goals Flexibility for producers
- While leaders can emerge in voluntary programs – we need regulated programs to have high performing programs – example texas
California has taken the lead with 6 laws Maine close behind - all states on the east coast with at least one
- With legislation map – we see this is in blue and red states alike w/ Nebraska introducing electronics legislation
Most momentum behind electronics Lots of momentum behind mercury products But growing interest in non-toxic wastes such as paint & batteries
This year we saw legislation introduced on plastic bags – applying the EPR model to a familiar problem - Packaging & printed materials (will discuss later) Phone books mandatory opt out And pharms – lots of activity establishing take back programs but a number of them are state-run due to regulations regarding who can handle cerain durgs such as narcotics which can be absued.
Leader with a number of groundbreaking laws – not afraid to go first - first to pass framework – went thru review of existing programs & nomination for new programs Number of programs introduced this year – their legislative prospects under the new administration are uncertain -Governor – Reform platform @ the moment he ’s taken out of it the pieces pertaining to PS legislation nothing ’s happened in terms of killing or repealing existing programs
Taken important first step of introducing packaing and printed materials (including books, newpapers, etc) These programs have been in place in Europe for quite a while Likely coming on the horizion shortly EPA hosting a dialogue now with industry Many industry leaders are expecting this not as a if but a when Two year session – but due to this history of the bill, future uncertain First included a repeal of the bottle bill – but this has since been removed
Following Maine’s example (and a study bill last year) – has introduced framework Includes three products Framework is the direction that we would like to see these programs go, but there is the risk when introducing framework of getting the attention of every industry -
Roll out state/ (as is vermont) and is part of a national agreement with the Paint Industry Provides an alternate arrangement – where the paint industry is actually lobby in favor of the paint legislation – of course only the legislation that was proposed Preferred to see a systematic implementation rather than what we’ve seen with electronics
Good game of catch up ewaste and battery laws - pharms for healthcare facilities – not mandated EPR
Just want to demonstrate that Mass and NH are the only states in the region without e-waste laws