The City of Edmonton: Anticipating Extended Producer Responsibility
商品編號：9B20D024
出版日期：2020/10/15
再版日期：2020/10/15
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商品主題：Operations Management
商品類型：Case (Pub Mat)
涵蓋議題：Extended Producer Responsibility;post-consumer collection;reverse logistics;recycling;circular economy
難易度：4 - Undergraduate/MBA
內容長度：10 頁
地域：Canada
產業：Administrative; Support; Waste Management and Remediation Services;
事件年度：2019
The City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (COE), recognizing that its once world-class waste management system needed major transformation, published an ambitious and progressive waste management strategic plan (“The Future of Waste”) on October 4, 2019. Among numerous initiatives, policies, and frameworks, the plan made reference to the concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR), a public policy mechanism for increasing the responsibility of producers for post-consumer (i.e., end-of-life) product and packaging waste. Although such policies were typically enacted at a provincial level, it seemed inevitable that, if EPR came into reality in Alberta, the COE would have some involvement in promotion and/or physical post-consumer collection logistics (a critical enabler of any successful EPR system). There was, thus, an opportunity for the COE to consider how its new direction for waste management should incorporate logistical support for EPR, from a coordination/leadership and/or a physical perspective.The issue at hand was whether and how the COE should be involved (logistically) in any potential EPR manifestation, which would include an analysis of what made a good post-consumer collection system; what existed in the COE at the time from current industry players, such as retailers, third-party logistics (3PL) providers, and providers of last-mile delivery services; and what specific role the COE could play (e.g., through waste and recycling collection).
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