Examining the concept of convenient collection : an application to extended producer responsibility and product stewardship frameworks

Détails bibliographiques
Publié dans:	Waste management (New York, N.Y.). - 1999. - 33(2013), 3 vom: 15. März, Seite 499-507
Auteur principal:	Wagner, Travis P (Auteur)
Format:	Article en ligne
Langue:	English
Publié:	2013
Accès à la collection:	Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Sujets:	Journal Article Solid Waste

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Résumé:	Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Increasingly, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Product Stewardship (PS) frameworks are being adopted as a preferred policy approach to promote cost-effective diversion and recovery of post-consumer solid waste. Because the application of EPR/PS generally requires the creation of a separate and often parallel collection and/or management system, key to increasing the amount of waste recovered is to maximize the convenience of the collection system to maximize consumer participation. Convenient collection is often mandated in EPR/PS laws, however it is not defined. Convenience is a subjective construct rendering it extremely difficult to define. However, based on a dissection of post-consumer collection efforts under a generic EPR/PS system, this paper identifies and examines five categories of convenience - knowledge requirements, proximity to a collection site, opportunity to drop-off materials, the draw of the collection site, and the ease of the process-and the various factors of convenience within each of these categories. By using a simplified multiple criteria decision analysis, this paper proposes a performance matrix of criteria of convenience. Stakeholders can use this matrix to assist in the design, assessment, and/or implementation of a convenient post-consumer collection system under an EPR/PS framework
Description:	Date Completed 16.09.2013 Date Revised 25.11.2016 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:	1879-2456
DOI:	10.1016/j.wasman.2012.06.015