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	U.S. EPA - Product Stewardship - Basic Information
		Product stewardship is a product-centered approach to environmental protection.
		Product stewardship recognizes that product manufacturers can and must take on new responsibilities to reduce the environmental footprint of their products.
		From preferring product providers who offer greater environmental performance, to educating the consumer on how to choose environmentally preferable products, to enabling consumer return of products for recycling, retailers are an integral part of the product stewardship revolution.
	www.epa.gov /epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/epr/about/index.htm (631 words)

	NYCWasteLe$$ Business: Extended Producer Responsibility
		Product stewardship or extended producer responsibility (EPR) encourages all those involved in the life cycle of a product — including manufacturers, retailers, consumers, and government — to take responsibility for the various environmental and human impacts that result from the production, use, and disposal of that product.
		Product stewardship policies provide manufacturers with an economic incentive to design products that can easily be remanufactured or recycled at the end of their useful life and/or contain less-toxic components.
		Product stewardship policies, first instituted by Germany in 1991 for packaging, now apply to producers of consumer products and to a significant portion of the packaging industry in most of the world’s industrial nations.
	www.nyc.gov /html/nycwasteless/html/in_business/product_stewardship.shtml (1453 words)

	What are we actually doing?
		A product stewardship information database is being developed with the aim to centralize all relevant product stewardship information and EHS products matters already available across the Group to ensure that the most up to date information is used in the same way within the whole organization.
		Product stewardship has been integrated into the pigment development procedure, and EHS aspects are reviewed at key stages of the development.
		The formal internal process for approval of products for use in particular application leads for Materials to both production quality standards and the generation of a product data sheet that identifies the uses for which the product is suitable.
	www.huntsman.com /pigments/index.cfm?PageID=3438 (690 words)

	Product Stewardship
		Product stewardship means that all parties who have a role in designing, producing, selling or using a product assume responsibility for the environmental impacts of the product throughout its life-cycle.
		Product stewardship shifts the responsibility and costs for managing products at the disposal stage from the general taxpayer to the manufacturers and consumers of those products.
		In response to these issues, the OEA is recommending to the Legislature that the state adopt a product stewardship framework, which would establish the principles of product stewardship in statute and outline the state’s expectations for the design, production, use and disposal of products.
	www.grrn.org /resources/mn.html (1012 words)

	Minnesota's Product Stewarship Policy
		There are four reasons for instituting product stewardship policies in Minnesota: lost resources, increasing amounts of garbage, rising costs to governments and potential harm from toxic material exposure.
		While the goal of product stewardship programs is to bring about changes in all aspects of a product – energy and material use, manufacturing processes, and end-of-life disposal – the OEA proposal focuses on using product stewardship to address issues facing waste management systems.
		In response to product stewardship requirements in Europe and Asia for electronic products such as computers, manufacturers are making changes to make it easier to reuse and recycle them.
	www.moea.state.mn.us /stewardship/policy.cfm (618 words)

	OEA and Product Stewardship
		Product stewardship means that all parties involved in designing, manufacturing, selling and using a product take responsibility for environmental impacts at every stage of that product's life.
		In particular, product stewardship requires manufacturers to share in the financial and physical responsibility for collecting and recycling products at the end of their useful lives.
		Government provides leadership in product stewardship in all its activities, including but not limited to, promoting product stewardship in purchasing products, making capital investments in buildings and infrastructure, procuring services, and ensuring products are recycled or properly managed at the end of their useful lives.
	www.moea.state.mn.us /stewardship/index.cfm (876 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Product (business) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		A "product" can also be an "experience", which like a service is intangible.
		The word "product" is also used as a pejorative term to describe teenagers who have homogeneized themselves in the sense they have become indistinguishable due to their clothing, possessions, and brands they choose to display (at least at first glance).
		Product management involves developing strategies and tactics that will increase product demand (referred to as primary demand) over the product's life cycle.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Product_(business) (547 words)

	Product Stewardship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		A simple definition of product stewardship is reducing the life cycle impacts of products.
		Product Stewardship is an integrated business process for identifying, managing and minimizing the health, safety and environmental risks throughout all stages of a product's life in the best interest of society and our key stakeholders; customers, employees and shareholders.
		The 2004-2008 goals include a more expansive Product Stewardship goal, which incorporates progress across the entire life cycle but also retains a quantitative element in the elimination of lead solder and chromium VI from 95% of new products commercialized in 2008.
	www.kodak.com /US/en/corp/HSE/stewardship.jhtml?pq-path=2879/7196/7207 (291 words)

	WEPSI: Product Stewardship
		Product stewardship addresses the environmental impact of a product at all stages of its life cycle, from design and manufacturing to packaging and distribution to end-of-life management.
		A product stewardship model suggests that if an entity has a greater ability to minimize a product's life-cycle impacts, so too does it have a greater degree of responsibility and opportunity for addressing those impacts.
		Electronic products are one of the fastest growing segments of the waste stream, and this number is projected to increase dramatically unless reuse and recycling options expand.
	www.recyclingadvocates.org /wepsi/ps.htm (1561 words)

	Principles of Product Stewardship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		All product lifecycle costs – from using resources, to reducing health and environmental impacts throughout the production process, to managing products at the end-of-life – should be included in the total product cost.
		The environmental costs of product manufacture, use, and disposal should be minimized, to the greatest extent possible, for local and state governments, and ultimately shifted to the manufacturers and consumers of products.
		Policies that promote and implement product stewardship principles should create incentives for the manufacturer to design and produce “cleaner” products – ones made using less energy, materials, and toxics, and which result in less waste (through reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting) and use less energy to operate.
	www.productstewardship.us /displayPage.php?pageid=120 (397 words)

	Product Stewardship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Product stewardship is a term used to describe a product-centered approach to environmental protection.
		Product stewardship seeks to put some of that cost and responsibility onto those who produce and consume those products.
		In response to product stewardship requirements in Europe and Asia for computers, the manufacturers are now making products that are easier to recycle by limiting the types of plastics, labeling them, and designing the computers to be easily taken apart and upgraded.
	www.ecy.wa.gov /sustainability/Resources/prod_steward.htm (939 words)

	Refuse and Recycling - Province of British Columbia
		Product Stewardship is a system based on industry and consumers taking life-cycle responsibility for the products they produce and use.
		Product stewardship programs in British Columbia are currently focused on used vehicle tires, oil and batteries; pharmaceutics; household hazardous waste; beverage containers; paint.
		A Product Stewardship Program exists in B.C. that requires the producers and consumers of solvents/flammable liquids, domestic pesticides, and gasoline to take responsibility for the management of their leftovers or wastes.
	www.gov.bc.ca /bvprd/bc/index.do?mode=contentIndex&channelId=-8372&programId=8337&navId=NAV_ID_province (326 words)

	ENN: Environmental News Network [[ ENN Magazine 357 ]] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		In practice, product stewardship means that industries keep reuse and recycling in mind when planning products and they band together to create reuse and recycling systems.
		The shift to product stewardship -- and movements to advance it in the Northwest states and elsewhere in the United States -- is the topic of an excellent paper by the new Product Policy Project.
		Politically, product stewardship is a fertile synthesis of approaches from the left and right.
	www.enn.com /mag.html?id=357 (1015 words)

	Product Stewardship
		Priority product areas for product stewardship schemes include cars, electronic products, hazardous substances, tyres (assuming the tracking system does not fully address the issue) as these have been highlighted in the document as having particular management and disposal problems (high volume and harm).
		The Ministry can play an important role in facilitating product stewardship schemes (as in the Packaged Goods Accord) and can provide the back stop regulation for high priority wastes where there is a clear need for intervention.
		product stewardship schemes but the use of any particular tools should not be mandatory.
	www.ruralwomen.org /ProductStewardship.htm (626 words)

	Definition of Product stewardship
		Product stewardship is the inclusion of waste disposal measures in the distribution chain of an industrial product.
		Those who advocate it are concerned with the later phases of product lifecycle and the comprehensive outcome of the whole production process.
		In the United States, there have been many class action suits that are effectively product stewardship liability - holding companies responsible for things the product does, which it was never advertised not to do.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Product_stewardship (474 words)

	RadTech International NA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The Product Stewardship program seeks to establish health, safety and environmental considerations as an early integral part of product formulation and to communicate to customer’s appropriate safeguards for product use and disposal.
		Product Stewardship acknowledges the need for quality products which can be used and disposed of safely.
		New products should not be commercialized until it is determined that it is possible to make, use, handle, distribute and dispose of the product in a safe and responsible manner.
	www.radtech.org /health_safety/stewardship.html (2371 words)

	Environmental Protection Agency - Product Stewardship Home
		It calls on those in the product lifecycle—manufacturers, retailers, users, and disposers—to share responsibility for reducing the environmental impacts of products.
		Basic Information - describes what Product Stewardship is and how it relates to both business and government.
		Products - describes how manufacturers, retailers, governments, and local communities are finding solutions to reduce waste and manage products at their end of life.
	www.epa.gov /epr (144 words)

	Lyondell Chemical Company Product Stewardship
		Lyondell operates a worldwide product stewardship program that aims to make health, safety and environmental protection an integral part of the development, manufacture, distribution, use, recycling and disposal of all our products.
		The product stewardship process begins with an evaluation of each product or product group according to the level of risk.
		Product hazards are intrinsic characteristics with the potential to cause harm, such as flammability, corrosiveness, toxicity and non-biodegradability.
	www.lyondell.com /html/social/prod_stewardship.shtml (206 words)

	EPA Region 10 - Product Stewardship
		Product Stewardship (otherwise known as Extended Product Responsibility or EPR) is a principle that directs all actors in the life cycle of a product to minimize the impacts of that product on the environment.
		Product stewardship means that all parties who have a role in designing, producing, selling or using a product assume responsibility for the environmental impacts of that product throughout its life.
		Product Stewardship is an umbrella under which familiar environmental strategies exist: Design for the Environment, greening the supply chain, Pollution Prevention, resource conservation, take-back, product to service transition.
	yosemite.epa.gov /R10/OWCM.NSF/1e9059fc4619cec588256500005b5e90/8f48c35059713a1988256848007594c7?OpenDocument (435 words)

	NERC Product Stewardship Policy Statement - 5/13/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Product stewardship balances the responsibility for end-of-life management between the public sector (government and taxpayers) and the private sector (manufacturers, retailers and the consumers).
		The purpose of this Product Stewardship Policy Statement is to articulate guiding principles for NERC to use as it works with policy makers, manufacturers, retailers, consumers, regulators, legislators, waste managers and others to develop programs that more safely, cost-effectively and appropriately manage products during the design, distribution, use, and at the end-of-life.
		NERC acknowledges the product stewardship policy statements developed by the Northwest Product Stewardship Council, the Product Stewardship Institute, and the Solid Waste Association of North America, all of which influenced the development and language of this document.
	www.nerc.org /documents/prodstewsttmnt5-03.html (684 words)

	Seagate Technology Environment: Product Stewardship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		This process begins with design and manufacture and continues through the product's use to end of life, when products are increasingly expected to be recycled.
		Our Product Stewardship Program utilizes Design for the Environment (DFE) criteria to guide design changes that minimize product environmental impacts by reducing and eliminating hazardous material content from products, packaging and manufacturing processes, including lead, polyvinyl chloride, ozone-depleting substances, and other hazardous materials.
		One way that we manage our supply chain to reduce the environmental impacts of our products is by requiring our suppliers to follow strict Product Stewardship guidelines for the parts, components and materials that are used to manufacture our products.
	www.seagate.com /newsinfo/citizenship/environment/stewardship.html (328 words)

	BSEF - PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP FOR THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS
		Product Stewardship is becoming increasingly recognized as "the responsible and ethical management of the health, safety and environmental aspects of a product throughout its total life cycle.
		Product Stewardship is Responsible Care© applied to products.
		Everyone involved in the production, handling, use and disposal of chemicals has a shared responsibility to ensure their safe management and use.
	www.bsef.com /product_stew/product_stew.php (426 words)

	Monsanto Reaffirms Commitment to Product Stewardship
		Product stewardship is part of the New Monsanto Pledge, a series of commitments that describe the company's policies for the products developed through biotechnology.
		For the 2001 season, Monsanto will continue its policy of continuous improvement in product stewardship, including: * Additional confirmation of channeling requirements for products that are approved in the U.S. and Japan but are not yet approved in Europe.
		Certain statements contained in this release, such as statements concerning product launches and product stewardship, are "forward-looking statements." These statements are based on factors that involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-04-2000/0001378496&EDATE= (923 words)

	About WEPSI
		Product stewardship is an environmental management strategy, whereby those who design, produce, sell, or use a given product, take responsibility for minimizing the product's environmental impact throughout all stages of the products' life cycle, in proportion to their ability to minimize those impacts.
		These grantees are the NW Product Stewardship Council and Recycling Advocates, organized as WEPSI-Northwest, and Global Futures Foundation, Materials for the Future Foundation and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, organized as WEPSI-Southwest.
		The implementation of an electronic product stewardship system will mean new business opportunities for handling end-of-life products, new practices by electronics manufacturers, and a new relationship between government and industry.
	www.recyclingadvocates.org /wepsi/about.htm (732 words)

	ChevronTexaco 2002 CR Report: Product Stewardship
		Product stewardship is an integral part of ChevronTexaco's health, environment and safety policy and approach.
		They also conduct product stewardship reviews for major changes and projects that have potentially significant environmental, health and safety impacts.
		Although product stewardship processes are well developed in several operating companies, particularly in North America, ChevronTexaco faces a challenge in implementing equivalent systems across all its operations.
	www.chevron.com /cr_report/2002/environmental_issues/product_stewardship.asp (393 words)

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		Inco's product stewardship model is understood as the management of the quality and safety, health and environmental aspects of our products from our shipping gate onward.
		A key function of product stewardship is to ensure that we have the means to inform our customers and the public about recycling and the safe use of nickel products.
		Product stewardship begins with ensuring that our products are shipped as safely and efficiently as possible.
	www.inco.com /customercentre/stewardship/default.aspx (560 words)

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