GCM 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Waste Hierarchy, Intellectual Property, Regulatory Law
10 Aug 2019
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Not perfect since it is based on statistics. Pla should be composted, not recycled. Packaging professionals must contend with the legal requirements applicable to packaging. Packaging about one third of the solid waste disposed in municipalities. Increasing environmental laws attempting to reduce the quantities of packaging. Varying depending on countries, governments, and states. The most prevalent packaging management program in the country. Various forms of a deposit-refund program currently exist in each province or territory in canada except. A policy approach in which a producer"s responsibility, physical and/or financial, for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product"s life cycle. Focus on producers because in most cases have the greatest ability to reduce life-cycle environmental impacts. Producers accept responsibility when they design their products to minimize the life-cycle environmental impacts, and when they accept the physical or economic responsibility for the environmental impacts that cannot be eliminated by design.
