“Extended producer responsibility is an environmental protection strategy to reach an environmental objective of a decreased total environmental impact from a product, by making the manufacturer of the product responsible for the entire life cycle of the product and especially for the take back, recycling and final disposal of the product.”
According to this definition, the extended producer responsibility begins right from the manufacturing of the product to the complete life cycle of that product. However, the EPR policy followed in India focuses more on the latter part. Even in which it fails to execute successfully due to the policy framework.
Few to mention are, the EPR policy in India concentrates more into waste recycling by formal sectors while the actual lot of work is done by informal sectors, exactly where the attention needs to be given. As per the policy, the producer is entitled to set up it’s own recycling unit to recycle the end product, but for most low scale producers it’s not financially possible.
I propose a business model to be added in the policy framework of the government, empowering the ULB to effectively enforce EPR at their boundaries.
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