OTHER PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP ORGANIZATIONS AND COUNCILS
Product Policy Institute
The Product Policy Institute is an independent nonprofit research and education organization that helps communities and their local governments work for statewide EPR policies as an alternative to costly, ineffective end-of-pipe disposal programs provided at taxpayer expense. Founded in 2003, PPI was the catalyst for the formation of the California, Texas, Vermont and New York Product Stewardship Councils. PPI is working with local governments and their citizens across North America to start councils and work toward Framework EPR policies.
The Product Policy Institute has a new web page on Producer Responsibility for Packaging at http://www.productpolicy.org/content/producer-responsibility-packaging.
Product Stewardship Institute
The Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) a national non-profit membership-based organization that works with state and local government agencies to partner with manufacturers, retailers, environmental groups, federal agencies, and other key stakeholders to reduce the health and environmental impacts of consumer products. PSI takes a unique product stewardship approach to solving waste management problems by encouraging product design changes and mediating stakeholder dialogues.
British Columbia Product Stewardship Council
In British Columbia, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) (formerly referred to as Industry Product Stewardship) is an environmental policy approach in which the producer’s responsibility for reducing environmental impact and managing the product is extended across the whole life cycle of the product, from selection of materials and design to its end-of-life. Economic Impacts of the B.C. Recycling Regulation (PDF)
Northwest Product Stewardship Council
The Northwest Product Stewardship Council (NWPSC) is a coalition of government organizations in Washington and Oregon working together and with other governments, businesses and nonprofit groups to integrate product stewardship (producer responsibility) principles into the policy and economic structures of the Pacific Northwest. The Council is working to shift Washington and Oregon’s product waste management system from one focused on government funded and ratepayer financed waste disposal and waste diversion to one that relies on producer responsibility in order to reduce public costs, increase accessibility to services, attain higher environmental benefits and drive improvements in product design that promote environmental sustainability.
California Product Stewardship Council
Dozens of local governments have pledged their support to the California Product Stewardship Council to shift California’s product waste management system from one focused on government funded and ratepayer financed waste diversion
to one that relies on producer responsibility in order to reduce public costs and drive improvements in product design that promote environmental sustainability.
New York Product Stewardship Council
The New York Product Stewardship Council is a newly formed body dedicated to shifting New York’s product waste management system from one focused on government funded and ratepayer financed waste diversion to one that relies on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), or Product Stewardship, in order to reduce public costs and drive improvements in product design that promote environmental sustainability.