The concept of extended producer responsibility for products has held manufacturers and distributors in the EU responsible for the return and disposal of end-of-life products for many years. Although the applicable obligations are already well established for a variety of product categories, e. g. electrical appliances, packaging and batteries, the extended producer responsibility system is […]
The path to a circular economy is hard to imagine without a recast of product-related material requirements. For the European “Green Deal” goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050, which is as ambitious as it is necessary, the measures envisaged in the circular economy action plan to transform our “take-make-use-dispose” behavior into a circular economy […]