Extended Manufacturer Responsibility and Packaging

Product responsibility doesn't end with the sale. The principle of extended producer responsibility places the cost of collecting, recycling, and disposing of the product at waste on the producer. This is both a cost item and a reporting obligation.

Scope

• Packaging declaration: Calculation of the material type, weight, and quantity of packaging placed on the market. The data source is the product's packaging tree.
• Packaging design guidelines: Monitoring design requirements such as recyclability, material reduction, and recycled content percentage.
• Electronic equipment: Quantity released to the market by category, recall targets, and product labeling.
• Batteries and accumulators: Notification, collection obligations, labeling, and increasing content and care responsibilities based on chemical type.
• Contributions payable: The amounts payable to authorized institutions are calculated from the amount released into the market.
• Multi-market management: Each country has its own registration, tariff, and reporting schedule. For an exporting business, this can easily translate into dozens of separate obligations.
• Recycling information: Providing consumer-facing sorting information on the product and packaging.