The recently formed Vermont Product Stewardship Council (VTPSC) champions Product Stewardship, also known as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), a policy approach that shifts waste management costs and responsibilities from being a taxpayer or ratepayer responsibility to one where the primary responsibility falls on the producers who design products, according to the press release.
In EPR programs, producers are incentivized to redesign products to make them less toxic and wasteful, more durable and repairable, and easier to reuse, recycle and compost, the council says.
“We are excited about the momentum that is building among local governments across the country for product stewardship,” says Bill Sheehan, executive director of the Product Policy Institute (PPI) in
PPI is leading the formation of independent local government product stewardship councils in the
“We appreciate the guidance the Product Policy Institute has offered us,” says Jen Holliday, founder and chairperson of the VTPSC and environmental and safety compliance manager of the Chittenden Solid Waste District. “As members of municipal solid waste districts and alliances, we are all concerned about the ever-increasing volume, disposal costs and toxicity of products found in our waste stream.”
Holliday also credited the Boston-based Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) for its years of education and outreach in
More information about the VTPSC is available at www.vtpsc.org.
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