To save limited resources and to recycling them have been emphasized. Many advanced countries tried or try adopt various market mechanisms for recycling the waste materials including EPR(Extended Producer Responsibility).
Korea has adopted the EPR s...
To save limited resources and to recycling them have been emphasized. Many advanced countries tried or try adopt various market mechanisms for recycling the waste materials including EPR(Extended Producer Responsibility).
Korea has adopted the EPR since 2003. On the point of over 2-year operation of EPR, it is meaningful to identify its performance effect on producer's main role to actively reduce the waste materials and recycle them, and sincerely discuss the problems and improvements.
For this effect, I examined the case studies implemented in advanced countries. When they carried it into practice, their EPR system has been stabilized and expanded to various sectors. Based on their operation, they tried to introduce it to production materials for making the environment-friendly production system, in reflecting the recyclable goods.
And I examined the changes before and after implementation of EPR and suggested that overall recycling and recollecting amounts tend to be augmented and additional social benefit including producer's cost efficiency to be increased.
Based on these analysis, I diagnosed the stabilization of EPR in Korea, its problems in detail and presented the alternatives of improvement.
In conclusion, the target of EPR system is to give the obligation and responsibility for recycling materials to producers, but it is not overlooked that vital participation of concerned parties of producer, consumer and government is to be induced as a prerequisite. Also the alternatives of its improvement are to be actively considered. The core and fundamental goal of the developed EPR system is to produce the environment-friendly products based on improvement of raw materials and structure by eliminating the step of generating the waste materials.
In the context, the various alternatives of EPR improvement shall be deeply looked for, complemented and expanded selectively for settlement of EPR system.
With the institutional arrangement and development of new technology, the most important thing is to reduce the energy and resources needed in production and consumption. The development of easily recyclable products will perform this goal and have a meaningful recycling.