PSpectives: A diversity of ideas and views

Manufactured goods and their packaging can deliver numerous benefits to consumers and drive economic prosperity for producers, brands and retailers. However, these products can also contribute to environmental impacts and human health concerns which need to be eliminated or significantly reduced.

Responsibility across the lifecycle

Central to the challenge of ‘producer responsibility’ is WHO should bear the responsibility for the socio-environmental impacts resulting from products, and what are the most effective means of eliminating or minimising these impacts as we seek to create a regenerative and restorative circular economy.

From lasting policy reform and intelligent regulation, through to effective incentives, sustainable procurement and new patterns of consumption, producer responsibility for the entire product lifecycle is increasingly front of mind for policy-makers and many businesses in Australia and globally.

Confronting the range of complex challenges requires bold visions and systems-thinking from all sectors that go well beyond current ESG policies, government frameworks and annual sustainability reports.

A platform to share perspectives

PSpectives is a new Centre for Excellence column that aims to explore these critical questions and complexities.

Above all PSpectives is a platform to hear from solution-focused producers and brands, policy-makers and advisers, practitioners, researchers and NGOs.

We hope you find PSpectives engaging as we work towards accelerating the adoption and implementation of producer responsibility across the entire lifecycle, and how it operationalises product sustainability and circularity in Australia.

We plan to regularly update and include additional contributors to build a diversity of perspectives over time.

Gayle Sloan

Waste Management & Resource Recovery Association
Strong regulation across the supply chain
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James Petesic

PV Industries
Accelerating EPR for solar panels
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Krisandra Knight

Australian Bedding Stewardship Council
Mattress stewardship interventions
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Lucia Moon

Clean Up Australia
Polluter pays key to effective EPR
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Omer Soker

Charitable Reuse Australia
Highest and best use a priority
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Troy Rowe

ReSource
Hidden danger of embedded battery products
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Vaughan Levitzke

Circular Economy Advisory
The impotence of voluntary product stewardship
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Annie Walker

Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
Reduce the trash and repair the treasure
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Dr. Brandon Gien

Good Design Australia
Design as a catalyst for environmental transformation
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Dayne Steggles

Consumer & Global Plastics Influencer
Real plastic product stewardship well overdue
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The Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence is an independent, not for profit charity, that seeks to reduce waste generation and create positive environmental and social outcomes through sustainable design, resource conservation, reuse, repair, and recycling. The Centre helps businesses, industries, and product stewardship organisations to adopt a strong lifecycle approach to deliver their ESG and circular economy objectives. We also provide independent advice on product stewardship priorities to the Australian government.

Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence Limited  |  PO Box 7520  |   Berrima NSW 2577

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