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1 Adam Hoffer & Jacob Macumber-Rosin, Extended Producer Responsibility 1 (2024)

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Extended Producer Responsibility


Adam  Hoffer
Jacob  Macumber-Rosin


Director of Excise Tax Policy
Excise Tax Policy Analyst


September  2024



Key Findings

•   Growing levels of waste and pollution, paired with increasing burdens on taxpayers to address envi-
    ronmental problems, have spurned policymakers in the US and abroad to encourage producers to be
    responsible, either financially or operationally, for the end-life of their products.
 •  Extended producer responsibility is a policy approach that could shape incentives to encourage recy-
   cled materials and help shift waste management costs from taxpayers to the producers of waste.
 •  Low-rate taxes on unrecycled raw materials like virgin plastics, coupled with enabling innovation in re-
   cycling, would encourage a circular economy-a model  of economic consumption  and production that
   involves reusing and recycling materials for as long as possible to reduce waste.
 •  Policy options that include recycled-based manufacturing standards, non-neutral burdens on products
   and  materials, and exclusive focus on one link in the circular economy chain are suboptimal policies
   that threaten to create counterproductive environmental outcomes.
 •  Conformity across states would minimize compliance costs and maximize environmental outcomes.
 • Soundly  designed policies could help enable a circular economy, achieve environmental goals, and
    bring economic growth from more efficient recycling and competitive waste disposal industries.

















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