How EPR Systems Can Be Leveraged to Boost Sustainability

How can an EPR system promote prevention, reuse, repair, redesign, sustainable waste management and a just transition?

The Global Action Partnership for Extended Producer Responsibility (GAP for EPR) invites you to join this discussion on opportunities for further developing EPR systems!

GAP for EPR Online Webinar
How EPR Systems Can Be Leveraged to Boost Sustainability
June 3rd, 10AM CEST
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Introducing EPR systems to improve the waste management system and provide financial support is certainly a good reason for implementation. However, given low recycling rates, even in countries where EPR systems have been in place for a long time, it is worth looking at what other instruments can be stimulated and supported by an EPR system.

Joan Marc Simon from Zero Waste Europe is the author of two recently published studies on EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility compatible with Planetary Boundaries and Designing EPR to foster the EU’s competitiveness and strategic autonomy). He will report on the opportunities and challenges of how EPR systems can more effectively reduce the plastic footprint. He will also discuss how EPR legislation can incorporate instruments such as deposit refund systems from the outset to avoid lock-in effects.

EXPRA (Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance) is the global alliance of 34 national packaging recycling & recovery organizations across 31 countries, dedicated to enabling circular and carbon neutral packaging through optimum EPR. Working alongside all relevant stakeholders, EXPRA delivers practical solutions to ensure packaging circularity. Valeria Branca, Project Manager at EXPRA, will present how PROs, as the most important implementers in an EPR system, can do this more effectively and what challenges they have to overcome.

The views and opinions expressed in this webinar do not necessarily reflect the positions of the core partners of GAP for EPR, nor of PREVENT Waste Alliance members or official policy positions of the international organisations and governments involved.