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Earth Science 2019 Journal of EnvironmentalWaste Management and Recycling | Volume 2
Page 15
May 22-23, 2019 | Rome, Italy
EARTH SCIENCE,
RECYCLING & SPACE TECHNOLOGY
7th International Conference on OF EXCELLENCE
IN INTERNATIONAL
MEETINGS
YEARS
EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY
AS TOOL ON THE WAY TO THE CIRCULAR
ECONOMY
The European Union has decided to move from a linear business ap-
proach to a circular economy. A circular economy is a regenerative
system in which resource input and waste, emission and energy leakage
are minimized by slowing, closing, narrowing energy and material loops;
this can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair,
reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, recycling and upcycling. This is in
contrast to a linear economy which is a‘take, make and dispose’model of
production. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a policy tool to di-
rect companies the way into this circular thinking by passing the respon-
sibility for the end of life management of their used products to those
companies putting packaged products on the market. The presenter will
explain this concept by highlighting best practices in the packaging sec-
tor, taking also into account the new obligations for the 28 EU Member
States coming from the circular economy package, including higher recy-
cling targets and newminimum requirements for EPR systems.
Joachim Quoden, J Environ Waste Management and Recycling 2019, Volume 2
Joachim Quoden has extensive experience in
packaging and municipal waste management,
dating from 1992 when he spent four months
in the German Ministry of Environment working
on packaging issues including the German Pack-
aging Ordinance. From 1993 to 2006, he worked
with Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutsch-
land GmbH (DSD), where he was appointed Head
of International Affairs in 2001. He acts as Manag-
ing Director of EXPRA, a new alliance of 25 PRO’s
fromcurrentlymore than 23 countries since 2013.
He is working as independent lawyer in Germany
specializing in international EPR legislation since
1995; Chairperson of ISWA’s Governance & Legal
WG; Member of the OECD EPR expert group and
has served as an expert in ISO global standardi-
sation project SIS/TK 165/AG 10 Packaging and
Environment. He also became Secretary General
between 2001 and 2013, later Managing Director
of PRO EUROPE-the umbrella organisation of 35
packaging recovery organisations.
Joachim Quoden
EXPRA-Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance, Belgium
BIOGRAPHY
Keynote Forum | Day 1