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== Chapter 1 - Sustainable Production== | == Chapter 1 - Sustainable Production== | ||
This chapter aims to promote the extension of products' lives through repair, reuse and remanufacture and to encourage consumers to recycle the materials that the products contain and to then dispose of them in the most environmentally sensitive way<ref name="RWS" />. | |||
The chapter sets out how the [[DEFRA|government]] aims to<ref name="RWS" />: | |||
* invoke the ‘polluter pays’ principle and extend producer responsibility for packaging, ensuring that producers pay the full costs of disposal for packaging they place on the market | |||
* stimulate demand for recycled plastic by introducing a tax on plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled plastic | |||
* harness the potential of extended producer responsibility for other product types | |||
* set minimum requirements through ecodesign to encourage resource efficient product design | |||
* manage chemicals sustainably and address barriers to reuse and recycling posed by their use, through a Chemicals Strategy | |||
* develop a model for realising resource efficiency savings, working with businesses through ‘resource efficiency clusters’ | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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