Industry Support for Extended Producer Responsibility

• Caterpillar: "Cradle-to-Cradle—Achieving the Vision Through Remanufacturing" 4/8/2008
  
  
• Sony letter to New Jersey Dec 7, 2007
  Sony Electronics Inc. wrote a letter to the New Jersey Senate in strong support for EPR legislation being considered. In it, Sony states:
  
  "It is Sony Electronics Inc. policy to take full manufacturer responsibility for all of the products that we have placed our brand name on. ...We urge you to adopt legislation that supports our efforts and extends this responsibility to include all electronics manufacturers and retailers. Sony internalizes the cost of recycling and request that any regulations require the same."
  
  
• California Retailers Association Sept 11 , 2007
  Testimony by Pamela Williams in support of CIWMB's EPR Framework Policy.
  
  "EPR is a trend that is sweeping the globe."
  
  
• Individual Producer Responsibility Works
  A European alliance of industry & NGOs.
  
  “Individual producer responsibility encourages competition between companies on how to manage the end-of-life phase of their products. This in turn drives innovation, such as in business models, take-back logistics and design changes, to reduce the environmental impact of products at the end of their life.”
  
  

Industry Resources for Greening the Supply Chain

• For manufacturing assistance (as opposed to, say, evaluation of products), businesses can contact the pollution prevention (P2) community. There's an excellent listserv called P2Tech.
  See:
  • P2Tech list instructions . The list is managed by the
  • Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable , part of the
  • P2Rx national network of regional P2 information centers .
• McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
  

Producer Responsibility in the Media

• Everything Old Is New Again: Why minimizing waste products and recycling is good for business
  — Cerrissa MacNichols, NorthBay BIZ Aug 2008 issue