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Earth Science 2019

Journal of EnvironmentalWaste Management and Recycling | Volume 2

Page 18

May 22-23, 2019 | Rome, Italy

EARTH SCIENCE,

RECYCLING & SPACE TECHNOLOGY

7

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International Conference on

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EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY

AS TOOL ON THE WAY TO THE CIRCULAR

ECONOMY

T

he 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.eu

Joachim Quoden

EXPRA-Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance, Belgium

BIOGRAPHY

Workshop | Day 1