Article: The Role Manufacturers Play
Most individuals see recycling as their own responsibility, either through voluntary action, or, in some jurisdictions, in accordance with the law. But in either case most recycling programs are geared toward the consumer handling their own waste.
Author: John Gillispie
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) places the environmental responsibility for a product beyond its manufacture point and throughout the product's lifecycle, including the post consumer phase.
This realigns manufacturers' views on how they should stream line initial procedures to accommodate the downstream effects - the Spray-All spray bottle is an excellent tool for following such practice at the post consumer level for chemical manufacturers.
The links below provide excellent information on this concept.
- http://www.grrn.org/resources/producer_responsibility.html
- http://www.ilsr.org/recycling/epr/index.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibility