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What is Product Stewardship? Product Stewardship is an environmental management strategy that means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses a product takes responsibility for minimizing the product's environmental impact throughout all stages of the products' life cycle. The greatest responsibility lies with whoever has the most ability to affect the life cycle environmental impacts of the product. The mission of the Council is to integrate product stewardship principles into the policy and economic structures of the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about the Northwest Product Stewardship Council. |
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LG Electronics Announces New Takeback Program LG is partnering with Waste Management’s Recycle America to offer free recycling of LG, ZENITH and GOLDSTAR electronics.First National Policy Supporting Framework for Sustainable Production Adopted by National Association of Counties The National Association of Counties adopted a resolution supporting an Extended Producer Responsibility Framework approach.New Video: Get on the Product Stewardship Bus! Take a virtual tour with the NWPSC of British Columbia's product stewardship programs including paint, medicine and beverage containers with the 27 minute video, Get on the Product Stewardship Bus!.Product Responsibility at a Turning Point? This 2008 article by Reid Lifset and Thomas Lindqvist, published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, discusses the tension in Europe between the two main goals of EPR: reducing public costs and improving product design. |