Extended producer responsibility: a differential fee model for promoting sustainable packaging

Pires, Ana; Martinho, Graça; Rita Ribeiro; Mafalda Mota; Luís Teixeira

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Extended producer responsibility in the European Union has been shown to be incapable of promoting environmentally friendly packaging, mainly because of the economic instrument used: the producer fee. To make the producer fee capable of both reflecting and influencing how packaging is produced, we propose a mathematical model for calculating a differential fee (the sustainable producer fee or SPF). The development of the model involves the following steps: the selection of sustainability criteria, the aggregation of criteria using multi-criteria decision making, the formulation of the SPF calculation, and the generation of a web-based interface for packers and product importers to calculate the differential fee applying to their own packaging.

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Acknowledgments This work was performed within the PoVeRE project and was financed by Sociedade Ponto Verde, S.A., for which the authors express their gratitude.

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Life cycle assessment impacts Environmental information Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) Technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) Sustainable packagingSustainable producer fee (SPF)

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13053

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Pires, A., Martinho, G., Ribeiro, R., Mota, M. and Teixeira, L. (2015) Extended Producer Responsibility: A Differential Fee Model for Promoting Sustainable Packaging. Journal of Cleaner Production, 108, 343-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.084