Description
This book provides an overview on the perspectives on managing products throughout their lifecycles in order to conserve resources, decrease environmental impact, and share the burden of responsibility. This book gives the reader a broad understanding of product stewardship and extended producer responsibility from many vantage points, while providing exemplary and precautionary case studies and expert discussion. Informative and timely, this reference will be useful to anyone engaged in or embarking on reducing impacts from consumer products by taking a product stewardship approach, which, at its core, holds manufacturers primarily accountable.
