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Germany's 1991 "polluter pays" legislation assigns industry cradle-to-grave responsibility for packaging materials, thereby creating incentives to reduce packaging, design new reusable container systems & use packages that are more easily & economically recycled. Proposed additional legislation would require manufacturer take-back of other products, including automobiles & electronic equipment. Similar proposals have been introduced across Europe, in Canada, & are making their way into the U.S. INFORM's report describes the effects of this ambitious legislation on retailers & consumers; on plastics, shipping & container industries; & on source reduction in general. It includes the full text of the German Packaging Ordinance in English & can help government & industry leaders everywhere understand these bold new solid waste policies. "the cost of managing excessive solid waste is a drain on our cities. Germany's packaging legislation shows us a strategy for transferring this cost to manufacturers, directly stimulating business to redesign its products. The goal: to provide incentives for companies to reduce, reuse & recycle. U.S. lawmakers would do well to learn from Germany's experience, described in sharp & analytical detail in INFORM's report."--Sharpe James, Mayor, Newark, NJ; Chairman, U.S. Conference of Mayors Solid Waste Task Force; President, National League of Cities. To order, contact: INFORM, Inc., 120 Wall St., 16th floor, New York, NY 10005, Phone: 212-361-2400.Fishbein, Bette K. is the author of 'Germany, Garbage, and the Green Dot: Challenging the Throwaway Society', published 1994 under ISBN 9780918780614 and ISBN 0918780616.
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