By Thierry Sanders, Founder, of Kolekt Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is gaining traction globally as a vital policy tool to tackle the growing challenge of waste management. The principle is simple yet powerful: the companies that introduce products and packaging into the market should bear the financial and/or physical responsibility for their post-consumer fate. For […]
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BVRio’s ‘Fishing for Litter’ programme, developed in partnership with artisanal fishing communities in Guanabara Bay, recently welcomed Larissa Godoy, the national coordinator of the TerraMar Project, an initiative led by Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA). Coordinated by the Department of Oceans and Coastal Management at the MMA, in partnership with GIZ […]
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By Thierry Sanders, Founder of KOLEKT A seemingly technical detail in Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulation holds the key to its success or failure: how producers declare the packaging they put on the market. Two approaches are vying for policymakers’ attention: The first, simpler at first glance, asks companies to report the total weight (in […]
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