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'''Producer responsibility''' means that producers are responsible for collecting and caring for used products. Producer responsibility is a management tool to achieve national [[environmental goals]]. The goal is that producer responsibility should motivate producers to develop products that are more resource-efficient, easily recyclable and contains no environmentally hazardous substances. The producer normally means all professional manufacture, import or export of goods to consumers.
Regulations for producer has introduced five product groups:
* Packages
* Tires
* Recycled paper
* Cars
* Electrical and electronic equipment (including bulbs and some lighting equipment)
==Producer responsibility for packaging==
The (Swedish) government has imposed on producers to take both economic and physical responsibility for discarded packages. The responsibility is governed by (Förordningen om producentansvar för förpackningar) the regulation on producer responsibility for packaging (SFS 2006:1273), and includes all kinds of packaging other than those that are considered hazardous waste. All producers, in all stages of distribution, have a responsibility to ensure that used packaging is collected and disposed of in an environmentally acceptable manner. This means that they should primarily be reused, recycled or in the alternative energy recovered - ie.used as fuel in plants or taken care of by other means that the Nature protective agency (Naturvårdverket) may determine.
The definition of producer responsibility is so designed that even a textile factory or a textile importer who supply their products in one package is to be regarded as a packaging producer. The industry is also responsible for packaging that comes with goods to the factory. Such packages are sorted and transported to a collection station.
To meet the requirements of the Packaging Ordinance, the industries have organized themselves into five different material companies, namely: Swedish Cardboard Recycling, Swedish Glass Recycling, Metal circuit, Plastic circuit, Returwell and Packaging and newspaper recycling. These are the ones who organizing the collection, reuse and recycling of packaging. By joining one or more of these material companies, companies can fulfill the demands of the producer responsibility they might have. Material companies have formed a joint subsidiary, [[REPAregistret]]. The company is responsible for recording the member companies, taking in contributions from them and also has the task to spread information on the collection of packages. Information on collection sites in each area is given by the local contractor.
==Producer responsibility of textiles==
Government Bill 1992/93:180 have identified textiles as a product, of several, in which an extended producer responsibility should be considered. (Kretsloppsdelegationen) [[Recycling Advisory Board]] has held discussions with stakeholders in the textile area for suggestions on how producer responsibility should specifically look like in the textile sector. As a basis, the Recycling Advisory Board ordered two investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdverket). EPA reported in the report “Textiles - Report to the Recycling Advisory Board, (1995) about environmental problems in textile manufacturing, and gave suggestions for future action. The second investigation “Textiles - Audit to the Recycle advisory board” (from 1996), points to, among other things, the use of chemicals and its great contribution to environmental problems in the manufacture of textile products.
At meetings between the textile industry and Recycling Advisory Board a formulation of a producer or cycle responsibility was discussed and the importers, manufacturers, etc. had several proposals. The trade association [[TEKO]] highlighted the steps to "detoxify the textile cycle" as a first priority. Here it is not enough that Swedish industry commits itself to be even better. The goal should be concerning all textile products that are on the Swedish market, they must have come from an environmentally friendly manufacturing process.
Other important steps are environmental requirements in public procurement, quality orientation in both supply and demand, increasing the voluntary organizations fundraising, continued efforts to find ways to economically viable textile recycling and to control textile waste to incineration / energy recovery.
Recycling Advisory Board announced in November 1997 that a producer responsibility of textiles and clothing industry cannot be formulated following the same guidelines as for example tires, building materials and electronics. Textiles and clothing products are therefore together with a range of other products covered by a specially designed producer responsibility.
==External links==
* [http://www.naturvardsverket.se/sv/Produkter-och-avfall/Avfall/Producentansvar/ Naturvårdsverket]
* [http://www.repa.se/ REPA Registret AB]
'''Producer responsibility''' means that producers are responsible for collecting and caring for used products. Producer responsibility is a management tool to achieve national [[environmental goals]]. The goal is that producer responsibility should motivate producers to develop products that are more resource-efficient, easily recyclable and contains no environmentally hazardous substances. The producer normally means all professional manufacture, import or export of goods to consumers.
Regulations for producer has introduced five product groups:
* Packages
* Tires
* Recycled paper
* Cars
* Electrical and electronic equipment (including bulbs and some lighting equipment)
==Producer responsibility for packaging==
The (Swedish) government has imposed on producers to take both economic and physical responsibility for discarded packages. The responsibility is governed by (Förordningen om producentansvar för förpackningar) the regulation on producer responsibility for packaging (SFS 2006:1273), and includes all kinds of packaging other than those that are considered hazardous waste. All producers, in all stages of distribution, have a responsibility to ensure that used packaging is collected and disposed of in an environmentally acceptable manner. This means that they should primarily be reused, recycled or in the alternative energy recovered - ie.used as fuel in plants or taken care of by other means that the Nature protective agency (Naturvårdverket) may determine.
The definition of producer responsibility is so designed that even a textile factory or a textile importer who supply their products in one package is to be regarded as a packaging producer. The industry is also responsible for packaging that comes with goods to the factory. Such packages are sorted and transported to a collection station.
To meet the requirements of the Packaging Ordinance, the industries have organized themselves into five different material companies, namely: Swedish Cardboard Recycling, Swedish Glass Recycling, Metal circuit, Plastic circuit, Returwell and Packaging and newspaper recycling. These are the ones who organizing the collection, reuse and recycling of packaging. By joining one or more of these material companies, companies can fulfill the demands of the producer responsibility they might have. Material companies have formed a joint subsidiary, [[REPAregistret]]. The company is responsible for recording the member companies, taking in contributions from them and also has the task to spread information on the collection of packages. Information on collection sites in each area is given by the local contractor.
==Producer responsibility of textiles==
Government Bill 1992/93:180 have identified textiles as a product, of several, in which an extended producer responsibility should be considered. (Kretsloppsdelegationen) [[Recycling Advisory Board]] has held discussions with stakeholders in the textile area for suggestions on how producer responsibility should specifically look like in the textile sector. As a basis, the Recycling Advisory Board ordered two investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdverket). EPA reported in the report “Textiles - Report to the Recycling Advisory Board, (1995) about environmental problems in textile manufacturing, and gave suggestions for future action. The second investigation “Textiles - Audit to the Recycle advisory board” (from 1996), points to, among other things, the use of chemicals and its great contribution to environmental problems in the manufacture of textile products.
At meetings between the textile industry and Recycling Advisory Board a formulation of a producer or cycle responsibility was discussed and the importers, manufacturers, etc. had several proposals. The trade association [[TEKO]] highlighted the steps to "detoxify the textile cycle" as a first priority. Here it is not enough that Swedish industry commits itself to be even better. The goal should be concerning all textile products that are on the Swedish market, they must have come from an environmentally friendly manufacturing process.
Other important steps are environmental requirements in public procurement, quality orientation in both supply and demand, increasing the voluntary organizations fundraising, continued efforts to find ways to economically viable textile recycling and to control textile waste to incineration / energy recovery.
Recycling Advisory Board announced in November 1997 that a producer responsibility of textiles and clothing industry cannot be formulated following the same guidelines as for example tires, building materials and electronics. Textiles and clothing products are therefore together with a range of other products covered by a specially designed producer responsibility.
==External links==
* [http://www.naturvardsverket.se/sv/Produkter-och-avfall/Avfall/Producentansvar/ Naturvårdsverket]
* [http://www.repa.se/ REPA Registret AB]
