Extended Producer Responsibility & Zero Waste

“If you’re smart enough to make it, you’re smart enough to take it back.” This is the philosophy of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), an “environmental policy approach that holds producers responsible for product management through the product’s lifecycle” (CalRecycle).

EPR is one of the most important strategies that can bring us closer to the goal of zero waste and reduced pollution. It can also be good for the local economy. At our August Sustainability Spotlight, learn how we can use existing structures of our economic system to move this strategy forward here in Tucson and in Arizona.