Extended Producer Responsibility and Design Change
(2011) In IIIEE Master thesis IMEN41 20112The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
- Abstract
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) aims to develop end-of-life product systems and reduce environmental impacts of product across entire life cycle. The empirical study of how EPR programmes have influenced design change is still few especially for complex and durable products such as EEE. Japan introduced EPR programmes in 2001 for four large home appliances (TV sets, air conditioners, refrigerators/freezers and washing/drying machines) and in 2003 for personal computers. This study takes Japanese EPR programmes for large home appliances and PCs as a case study to evaluate to what extent manufacturers improved design change of their products and how Japanese EPR programmes influenced on those attained design changes within the time... (More)
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) aims to develop end-of-life product systems and reduce environmental impacts of product across entire life cycle. The empirical study of how EPR programmes have influenced design change is still few especially for complex and durable products such as EEE. Japan introduced EPR programmes in 2001 for four large home appliances (TV sets, air conditioners, refrigerators/freezers and washing/drying machines) and in 2003 for personal computers. This study takes Japanese EPR programmes for large home appliances and PCs as a case study to evaluate to what extent manufacturers improved design change of their products and how Japanese EPR programmes influenced on those attained design changes within the time frame from 2000 to 2010. (Less)
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- author
- Sawaki, Chihiro LU
- supervisor
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- Naoko Tojo LU
- organization
- alternative title
- A case study of the Japanese EPR prgrammes
- course
- IMEN41 20112
- year
- 2011
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- design for environment (DfE), Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), large home appliances, PCs
- publication/series
- IIIEE Master thesis
- report number
- 2011:09
- ISSN
- 1401-9191
- language
- English
- id
- 2174493
- date added to LUP
- 2011-10-19 11:52:44
- date last changed
- 2011-10-19 11:52:44
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