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Extended Producer Responsibility - A Workshop

Extended Producer Responsibility: A Workshop

Toronto, April 2-3, 2004

Sponsored by:
Great Lakes United
Association of Municipal Recycling Coordinators

Cosponsored by:
Ontario Trillium Foundation
Ontario Environment Network Labour Caucus
Citizens Network on Waste Management
Canadian Auto Workers
Workers Health and Safety Centre

Presentations
All documents in Microsoft PowerPoint format


Introduction to EPR (277 kilobytes)
Joel Tickner, Lowell Centre for Sustainable Production: the concept, range of responsibilities, financial incentives, and government actions towards EPR

Principles of EPR and EPR toolkit (1 megabyte)
Beverley Thorpe, Clean Production Action

EPR programs in Canada (1.2 megabytes)
Clarissa Morawski, CM Consulting: a province by province review

Municipal garbage crisis (26 kilobytes)
John Jackson, Citizens’ Network on Waste Management: how an effective EPR program would mitigate the crisis

Municipal EPR experience (13 megabytes)
Peter Wenster, Swedish Association of Local Authorities: stakeholder legal responsibilities, financing, recycling targets, and collection systems

EPR in the automobile industry (225 kilobytes)
Rosalinde van der Vlies, European Commission: the End of Life Vehicle Directive and its objectives, application, and implementation

Elecronics program (347 kilobytes)
Peter Wenster, Swedish Association of Local Authorities: collection, transportation, treatment, financing, and successes and problems of the Swedish electronics program

Green design in EPR (16 megabytes)
Phillip White, ORB Analysis

Harmonization accountability and design for the environment (69 kilobytes)
Duncan Bury, Environment Canada