Manufacturers should be responsible for the end of life of their products through EPR
Plastic pollution is now everywhere; it's in the water we drink, the food we eat and the air we breathe, it is now affecting us in ways we cannot measure. We should all be concerned. To manage this growing problem it is important that governments draft extended producer responsibility policies to compel manufacturers to be responsible for the end of life of their products. Just like the polluter pays principle, it should be the responsibility of those who produce goods that are potentially harmful to the environment to pay for the damage their products cause. Femi an environment Sustainability Advocate and co-founder, Youth Sustainability Development Conference, calls out on policy based approaches to mitigate on the effects of the end of cycle of products through extended producer responsibility.
To make extended producer responsibly efficient, manufacturers should form a producer responsibility organization where they will become members and pay fees to enable the organization fulfill the mandate of an extended producer responsibility, this way individual producers will be able to concentrate on their core business.
Extended Producer Responsibility has been identified the as a critical and effective policy tool in holding manufacturers accountable for the end-of-life impacts of their plastic products and packaging.
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