2.  Products have impacts across lifecycle  Manufacturers have little incentive to reduce product impacts  Complexity of waste stream increasing  Governments are financially stretched

3. The act of minimizing health, safety, environmental and social impacts, and maximizing economic benefits of a product and its packaging throughout all lifecycle stages ◦ Producer has greatest ability to minimize adverse impacts, but other stakeholders also play a role ◦ Can be voluntary or mandatory Source: Product Stewardship Institute

4.  Incorporate full lifecycle costs into cost of doing business  Incent manufacturers to reduce impacts over entire product lifecycle

5.  Take-back and recycling programs (producers, retailers)  Reducing toxics in products  Purchasing information  Product rating systems  Design changes to reduce impacts

6. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a mandatory type of product stewardship that includes, at a minimum, the requirement that the producer’s responsibility for their product extends to post-consumer management of that product and its packaging. Source: Product Stewardship Institute. Product Policy Institute

8.  DEQ & Metro engaged stakeholders  Identified key common elements for successful EPR – but not one size fits all  Elements included: ◦ Collection convenience standards ◦ Sound environmental management ◦ Education and promotion

9.  EPR  Set requirements that producers must meet to sell into the marketplace  Insure material and product information is transparent  Internalize cost externalities

10.  Only those at table can speak  One person speaks at a time  Red card for interruption foul  Yellow card for pontificating foul  New question every 10 minutes  15 minutes reserved at end for open forum  Continue discussion at reception after session

11. ◦ Abby Boudouris, DEQ ◦ Jerry Powell, Resource Recycling ◦ Scott Klag, Metro ◦ Jim Quinn, Metro ◦ Kristan Mitchell, ORRA ◦ Jeff Murray, Independent Consultant ◦ Wayne Rifer, EPEAT ◦ Ryan Kramer, OBRC