May 2013

GlobalPSC News – May 2013

Shifting the Burden of Recycling: Yale Journal Explores the State of Extended Producer Responsibility By Reid Lifset, Editor-in-chief Journal of Industrial Ecology Over the past two decades governments around the world have been experimenting with a new strategy for managing waste. By making producers responsible for their products when they become wastes, policy makers seek to significantly increase the recycling­-and recyclability­-of computers, packaging, automobiles, and household hazardous wastes such as batteries, used…