Perspectives on Product Stewardship

Consumer product waste, toxicity, and complexity have created an unbearable financial and management burden for municipal officials, leading to a paradigm shift towards Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Stewardship. Perspectives on Product Stewardship provides an overview of managing products throughout their life cycles to conserve resources, decrease environmental impact, and share the burden of responsibility, with case studies on paint, batteries, and packaging. It is useful for anyone engaged in efforts to reduce impacts from consumer products.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 428 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Consumer product waste, its toxicity, and the complexity of materials have created an unbearable financial and management burden for municipal officials, leading to the need for a paradigm shift. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Product Stewardship play a significant role in bringing our consumption of natural resources and emission of greenhouse gases back into balance with the earth's ability to absorb these impacts. Perspectives on Product Stewardship provides an overview on managing products throughout their life cycles in order to conserve resources, decrease environmental impact, and share the burden of responsibility. It gives the reader a broad understanding of the origins and evolution of the rapidly expanding field of product stewardship and extended producer responsibility, while providing exemplary and precautionary case studies on paint, batteries, and packaging. Informative and timely, this reference will be useful to anyone engaged in, or embarking on, efforts to reduce impacts from consumer products, including producers, retailers, waste management professionals, recyclers, governments, environmental advocates, students, and the public.

Weight: 581g
Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781641433174