Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Stewardship

Agenda: April 28, 2008 WorkShop, EPR in Action: Program Design and Implementation

April 28, 2008
9:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.

Cal/EPA Headquarters Building
Coastal Hearing Room (webcast available)
Sacramento, California

• Workshop Purpose
• Registration
• Agenda | Presentations
• Background Material

Purpose

This all-day workshop (the first in a series of three) offered practical, hands-on learning opportunities in extended producer responsibility (EPR) program design and implementation as well as opportunities to impact EPR development in California. Practitioners from a variety of EPR programs from the U.S., Canada, and Europe highlighted legislative aspects of their programs and focused on implementation. There were plenty of opportunities for networking and discussion.

Agenda

Time	Topic	Speaker / Presentation
9:30 a.m.	Registration
9:50 a.m.	Welcome	Margo Reid Brown, Board Chair, California Integrated Waste Management Board
10:00 a.m.	Overview of EPR Approaches and Case Studies	Joachim Quoden, PRO-Europe on EPR in Europe, “European Experience With Industry Stewardship Programs” (Adobe PDF,  925 KB) Mark McKenney, MGM Management, "How EPR is Progressing in Canada" (Adobe PDF,  427 KB)
11:00 a.m.	Product Design Panel: Facilitated Q&A on Product Design Issues	Dr. Michael Wilson, UC Berkeley Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health Tony Kingsbury, Executive-in-Residence, Sustainable Products & Solutions Program, Haas School of Business, Center for Responsible Business, UC Berkeley Scott Canonico, Manager, Environmental Policy and Strategy, Hewlett Packard
12:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Case Study: Legislative Perspective	Sego Jackson, Snohomish County, Washington with Walter Alcorn, Product Ecology, LLC on experiences developing and implementing Washington State's recently-adopted e-waste EPR legislation, "Case Study: Washington State Electronics Law" (Adobe PDF, 2.1 MB)
2:30 p.m.	Networking Break
2:45 p.m.	Case Studies: Individual Producer Responsibility and Retailer Perspective	Doug Smith, Sony with Bobby Farris, Waste Management on the Sony Take Back Recycling Program, "National Takeback and Recycling Program as easy to recycle as it is to purchase" (Adobe PDF, 254 KB)
3:45 p.m.	Discussion and Q&A among all panelists
4:30 p.m.	Wrap-Up
No-host happy hour/informal dinner at Sofia restaurant, 815 11th Street, Sacramento immediately following the workshop.

Background Material

• EPR Framework (Adobe PDF, 106 KB)
• EPR Checklist (Adobe PDF, 70 KB)
• Article, “How Producer Responsibility for Product Take-Back Can Promote Eco-Design” (Adobe PDF, file size unknown) by Beverly Thorpe.

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