EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY (EPR)

EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY (EPR), is an environmental policy that makes companies responsible for managing and recycling the products and packaging they sell after consumers finish using them. At FERIS, we aim to help eliminate outdated recycling practices via ethical, proactive measures within the product design, supply, and recycling chains.

As our global community continues to develop, the non-stop production of goods remains certain. Humanity’s insatiable demand for up to date consumer goods is by no means new, but when once-cherished items reach the end of their life cycle and get discarded, we don’t always think about what becomes of them or if they pose a future risk to our health, safety, or environment.

We assume they can or will be processed properly–hopefully repurposed or recycled–but that’s not always the case. With landfills across the globe piling up with trash and some recycling efforts failing to process the influx of recyclable material created annually, the message to product designers, suppliers, and organizations in the product design and recycling industry is clear: we must improve all levels of the circular economy through proactive methods such as Extending Producer Responsibility.