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World Recycling Forum: EPR Middle Ground
Posted on November 18th, 2011 No commentsAs the head of environmental management for the Asia Pacific and Japan region for Hewlett-Packard (HP), Annukka Dickens has become familiar with many different extended producer responsibility (EPR) systems for obsolete electronics. In a presentation at the World Recycling Forum, held in Hong Kong in mid-November, Dickens offered an overview of some of the more common system set-ups, as well as the view from a large OEM such as HP about what works and what doesn’t. Dickens said centrally managed systems, in which collectors and recyclers are directly subsidized for the obsolete items they handle, are “typically well-intended and work well with technology that is fairly uniform.” However, she added, because electronic scrap can have such a broad definition in some jurisdictions—from refrigerators to cell phones—this can end up subsidizing forms of recycling that don’t really require the funding.
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