Northwest Product Stewardship Council
The Northwest Product Stewardship Council (NWPSC) is a coalition of government organizations in Washington and Oregon with a mission to enhance reuse, recycling and waste management systems.
We work with the waste and recycling industry, consumers, manufacturers and others to connect producers with the costs associated with the end-of-life management of their products to provide incentives for reducing waste, increasing recyclability, and reducing the toxicity of their products.
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 product’s lifecycle, including end-of-life management.
The greatest responsibility lies with whoever has the most ability to affect the full lifecycle environmental impacts of the product.
Product Stewardship (PS) and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) are terms that are often used interchangeably to describe policy approaches and long-term solutions to managing products at their end-of-life by shifting the operational and/or financial burden of responsible collection, transportation, and end-of-life management of products away from local governments to producers.”
Product Stewardship Programs
Washington
Oregon
About NWPSC
The Northwest Product Stewardship Council (NWPSC) is a coalition of government organizations in Washington and Oregon that work together to develop and improve Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies and programs