Tag: Extended Producer Responsibility
Can circular thinking go beyond economics to help solve public health issues?
Hugh Tyrrell is director of GreenEdge, a marketing communications and behaviour change consultancy specialising in the circular economy.
RECENT reports of childrens’ deaths in townships...
Will EPR affect the role of waste pickers in South Africa?
AS South Africa continues to roll out compulsory Extended Producer Responsibility schemes in accordance with refined EPR regulations, the critical role of waste pickers...
Over-extension of Extended Producer Responsibility?
SOUTH Africa recently published a set of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations, which aim to extend companies' financial or physical responsibility for certain identified...
EPR is coming – will you be ready?
THE implementation of the Government’s upcoming EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) scheme is well advanced and impending legislation requires producers especially in the packaging industries...
EPR Explained – creating a true circular economy for plastics packaging
South Africa has recently published the Section 18 Regulations to the National Environmental Management: Waste Act on 5 November 2020, which refers to the...
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