Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is the idea that a product's producer is responsible for its post-consumer or end-of-life (EOL) stage beyond traditional sales. This indicates that the producer is accountable for the safe recycling or disposal of the recycled goods or packaging material.
The goal of EPR is to get manufacturers to start thinking about how to process their products at their end of life as soon as they design them. As a result, products that are durable and simple to recycle are created. The producer should bear the significant costs of collecting and recycling these wastes, rather than passing them on to the government or the environment.
Currently, the informal sector in India manages over 90% of all electronic waste without safety measures or scientific recycling methods.
Millions of multi-layered plastics (MLP), which are basically all of our biscuit and chip packets, are either burned or dumped into our oceans and landfills, putting animals and plants at risk of serious health problems.
In order to combat this, certain EPR policies in India, as outlined below, require manufacturers of such materials to establish collection and recycling systems.
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