Waste Prevention Information Exchange

Product Stewardship

This page explores product stewardship of manufacturers, retailers, and consumers, including manufacturer responsibility and extended product responsibility. This page does not address the subject of fair labor, which sometimes is also associated with the term product stewardship.

Also see Electronics and Environmentally Preferable Purchasing in this directory.

CalRecycle Programs and Services

• Electronic Product Stewardship—How CalRecycle meets the challenge.

CalRecycle Publications

CalRecycle has either printed or Web publications on this topic that you can find at either our publication search page or our main search page. However, not all of these publications apply to "waste prevention" in the most literal use of that term.

Other Resources

Documents

• Manufacturer Responsibility—An issue paper by the National Recycling Coalition.

Web Sites

• Product Stewardship—A Web site of the U.S. EPA's Office of Solid Waste.
• Product Stewardship Institute—The Product Stewardship Institute assists state and local government agencies in establishing cooperative agreements with industry and developing other initiatives that reduce the health and environmental impacts from consumer products.