Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), a policy approach in which the responsibility of the waste from a consumer good is extended back up to the producer of the good, is developing and expanding in OECD countries.  Governments find that these schemes can provide a new and flexible approach to reduce the upward trend of waste from consumer products. To address these issues, OECD organised a workshop in December 2002, which was hosted by the Japanese Ministry of Environment, in Tokyo. This book contains selected papers presented at this workshop.

Chapter 1. Cover and table of contents
Chapter 2. Executive summary
Chapter 3. EPR Policy Goals and Policy Choices
Chapter 4. Evaluation of EPR Programmes
Chapter 5. Technical Innovation and EPR Policies
Chapter 6. Political Economy for Implementing EPR Policies
Chapter 7. EPR and the Cost-sharing Issue