Search for dissertations about: "Extended producer responsibility"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words Extended producer responsibility.
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1. Return to Sender : Essays on Extended producer Responsibility
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis to increase the understanding of how Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) affects the economy. EPR is a principle stating that producers should be responsible for the environmental impact of their products throughout the life cycle. READ MORE
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2. Extended Producer Responsibility as a Driver for Design Change - Utopia or Reality?
Abstract : Policies based upon Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) aim to reduce the environmental impacts of products across their entire life cycle. The intent is to induce design changes in products and thus reduce impacts at source. This, by provision of incentives to producers through an extension of responsibility. READ MORE
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3. Individual Producer Responsibility in the WEEE Directive - From Theory to Practice?
Abstract : In the current discourse over what constitutes successful Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy implementation, there is an on-going debate over the ability of programme design to include an appropriate incentive mechanism to stimulate producers to improve the design of their products for reduced life cycle impacts, and especially the impacts and costs from the end-of-life management. At the centre of the debate is the Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) which has the explicit goal to encourage the design and production of electrical and electronic products which facilitate dismantling, recovery and in particular the reuse and recycling of WEEE. READ MORE
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4. Extended Producer Responsibility for Closing Material Loops: Lessons from energy-efficient lighting products
Abstract : The transition to a low-carbon economy requires enabling technologies including energy-efficient lighting products. It is increasingly recognized that a sustainable economy is not only low-carbon and energy efficient, but also resource efficient. READ MORE
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5. Making Sense of Extended Producer Responsibility: Towards a framework for policy transfer
Abstract : Policy transfer of complex interventions often falls into the trap of uninformed, incomplete, and/or inappropriate transfer because the interventions are insufficiently identified with some of their perceived core components. This is no exception in the interspatial learning about extended producer responsibility (EPR) programmes. READ MORE