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Abstract
The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) concept involves having producers take environmental responsibility for post-consumer products. Based on this principle, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive of the European Union, enacted in 2006, is the most representative management program in the world and the most popular recycling policy many countries follow. Taiwan’s version of EPR for WEEE recycling, set up in 1998, had a focus on recycling fees determined by a recycling fee equation. Nowadays, the equation takes into account the consideration of the environment in the designs of products, in addition to the cost needed for recycling. The environmental performance upgrades in products, encouraged by the financial incentives from these considerations, is a side-benefit of this program. In this paper, the functions of the recycling fee equation that consider environmental costs are reviewed. It was found that in spite of the difficulty in determining the real environmental costs in practice, pricing is a mechanism which helps us to consider the cost of e-waste recycling, not only in terms of labor and administration, but also environmental quality.
Highlights
Environmental damage from littering is the main reason for waste management efforts, which has led to the practice of take-back schemes in many countries [1]
Because the associations between the recycling system and the economy are complex, In practice, because the the recycling system economy are complex, it is necessary to examine theassociations roles of the between major players contributing toand the the success of the recycling it is necessary to examine the roles of the major players contributing to the success of the recycling scheme
The environmental cost of e-waste is always a concern in environmental protection and waste management because of its externalities in financial accounting [1,2,3]. This issue is related to the concept of Environmental Life Cycle Costing (LCC) [22,23] which estimates the real cost of each product through its life cycle
Summary
Environmental damage from littering is the main reason for waste management efforts, which has led to the practice of take-back schemes in many countries [1]. The Extended Producer Responsibility principle (EPR) [1,2] adds environmental cost in as a portion of the sales of durable products, such as electrical and electronic equipment, sold to customers [3]. The cost of collection and recycling can be interpreted as an environmental cost, if articles are scattered in the environment [4]. The governmental recycling system for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in Taiwan started in 1998 with the EPR concept, which considers environmental costs caused by e-waste dumped in the environment without further treatment [5,6]. The fees are for the cost of take-back schemes and recycling, and for articles scattered in nature without being collected for proper treatment
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