Circular Economy
Circular Economy depends largely on producers taking responsibility for recycling of products after consumers dispose them and for improving their design. For various types of products (like cars, tyres, electronics, packaging, batteries) this EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY has been introduced in the last few decades in the EU and also in the Netherlands as a legal obligation. In this video we show how this works and what needs to be improved to achieve the ambitious Dutch policy goals (reduction of the use of virgin resource for product with 50% by 2030). We discuss the garment sector as an example to show that the organisation model and the financial fee structure of EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY schemes need to be renewed.