"Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) (also called “Producer Takeback”) is a product and waste management system in which manufacturers – not the consumer or government – take responsibility for the environmentally safe management of their product when it is no longer useful or discarded. When manufacturers take responsibility for the recycling of their own products they:

• Use environmentally safer materials in the production process
  
• Consume fewer materials in the production process
  
• Design the product to last longer and be more useful
  
• Create safer recycling systems
  
• Are motivated to keep waste costs down
  
• No longer pass the cost of disposal to the government and the taxpayer
  
• Do we have Producer Responsibility in the US? Some companies are taking responsibility voluntarily for their old products. While we don’t have a national policy requiring producer responsibility, many States are passing laws requiring it within their states. Learn more about state legislation."