To break the paradigm of traditional post-consumer waste
management e reliance on voluntary household participation and municipal responsibility e governments are looking to the
adoption of producer and product responsibility schemes as a
means to achieve greater success. That is, polluter pay-based
schemes can reallocate/shift collection and management responsibility
among the primary or all parties responsible in postconsumer
waste management. The two most common frameworks
are extended producer responsibility (EPR) and product
stewardship