What is EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility)?
Extended Producer Responsibility - or EPR - is a term used to describe a certain kind of regulation. When the law requires producers to be in part responsible for the end of their product’s life, it’s considered EPR. In 1990, Thomas Lindqvist and his colleague Karl Lidgren submitted a report to the Swedish Environment Ministry. It's in that report that Lindqvist, now Associate Professor and Director of Research at Lund University, coins the term […]
