The Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
Extended Product Responsibility is an emerging principle for a new generation of pollution prevention policies that focus on product systems instead of production facilities. It relies for its implementation on life-cycle analysis to identify opportunities to prevent pollution and reduce resource and energy use in each stage of the product chain through changes in product design and process technology. All actors along the product chain share responsibility for the life-cycle environmental impacts of products, from the upstream impacts inherent in selection of materials and impacts from the manufacturing process itself to downstream impacts from the use and disposal of the products.
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Extended Product Responsibility: A New Principle for Product-Oriented Pollution Prevention.
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Extended Product Responsibility is an emerging principle for a new generation of pollution prevention policies that focus on product systems instead of production facilities. It relies for its implementation on life-cycle analysis to identify opportunities to prevent pollution and reduce resource and energy use in each stage of the product chain through changes in product design and process technology. All actors along the product chain share responsibility for the life-cycle environmental impacts of products, from the upstream impacts inherent in selection of materials and impacts from the manufacturing process itself to downstream impacts from the use and disposal of the products.