Transcript AOR Product Stewardship Policy Roundtable

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Products have impacts across lifecycle
Manufacturers have little incentive to reduce
product impacts
Complexity of waste stream increasing
Governments are financially stretched
The act of minimizing health, safety,
environmental and social impacts, and
maximizing economic benefits of a product
and its packaging throughout all lifecycle
stages
◦ Producer has greatest ability to minimize adverse
impacts, but other stakeholders also play a role
◦ Can be voluntary or mandatory
Source: Product Stewardship Institute
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Incorporate full lifecycle costs into cost of
doing business
Incent manufacturers to reduce impacts over
entire product lifecycle
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Take-back and recycling programs
(producers, retailers)
Reducing toxics in products
Purchasing information
Product rating systems
Design changes to reduce impacts
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a
mandatory type of product stewardship that
includes, at a minimum, the requirement that
the producer’s responsibility for their product
extends to post-consumer management of
that product and its packaging.
Source: Product Stewardship Institute. Product Policy Institute
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DEQ & Metro engaged stakeholders
Identified key common elements for
successful EPR – but not one size fits all
Elements included:
◦ Collection convenience standards
◦ Sound environmental management
◦ Education and promotion
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EPR
Set requirements that producers must meet
to sell into the marketplace
Insure material and product information is
transparent
Internalize cost externalities
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Only those at table can speak
One person speaks at a time
Red card for interruption foul
Yellow card for pontificating foul
New question every 10 minutes
15 minutes reserved at end for open forum
Continue discussion at reception after
session
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Abby Boudouris, DEQ
Jerry Powell, Resource Recycling
Scott Klag, Metro
Jim Quinn, Metro
Kristan Mitchell, ORRA
Jeff Murray, Independent Consultant
Wayne Rifer, EPEAT
Ryan Kramer, OBRC