Next In Fashion: Extended Producer Responsibility?

Next in fashion: Extended producer responsibility?

There have been reports many depicting vast wastelands filled with clothing, many of them in developing nations. Clothes are "donated" from wealthy nations to developing but all that the items are useful for is waste in landfills. Ultimately, it is the end user who becomes responsible for the environmental impacts and disposal of the items. It begs the question, who should be responsible for the problem?

Extended producer responsibility

Extended producer responsibility ("EPR") is an approach that places significant responsibility for the disposal of manufactured goods on the manufacturer. The aim is to incentivise manufacturers to extend the life of their products and to shift some of the environmental costs associated with product disposal from the consumers and the environment to the producers themselves. While such policies remain scarce around the world, this is set to change with the global focus on the