Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) as an environmental policy approach in which a producer’s responsibility for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product’s life cycle.
Kazakhstan has adopted a comprehensive and ambitious framework for implementing EPR. In less than three years, it has been extended from its initial scope on motor vehicles and their components to packaging and waste electrical and electronic equipment, and there are plans for further extensions. The EPR framework means that producers must “ensure the collection, transportation, processing, decontamination, recycling, and/or disposal of waste products and packaging,” either through a contract with the EPR operator or through their own individual system.
- Securing financing for packaging and waste electrical and electronic equipment collection and recycling;
- Ensuring transparency over cost coverage and expenditure;
- Strengthening the legal framework;
- Progressively removing barriers to alternative compliance systems; and
- Exploring complementary policy approaches.
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