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Are The Companies Prepared For EPR?

  Have you heard environmentalists and world leaders speak volumes about the importance of implementing strategic waste management? It is certainly a need of the hour, owing to the increasing problems of environmental crises and hazardous human conditions. To further the purpose of waste management, a strategic policy known as  Extended Producer Responsibility EPR  is brought into the limelight. Sounds a little too technical, right? Well, EPR refers to a tactical policy approach that obligates producers and manufacturers to work out ways for an end-to-end treatment and disposal of post-consumer products.    Simply put,  Extended Producer Responsibility EPR  encourage producers to do more than look into the conventional sale of the products. Accordingly, a producer is liable to extend the life of products and ensure methodic and environmental-friendly disposal of products. In short, a producer is responsible for collecting the packaging materials and consumed products and ensuring saf