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Product Stewardship About Product Stewardship Product Stewardship (otherwise known as Extended Product Responsibility or EPR) is a principle that directs all actors in the life cycle of a product to minimize the impacts of that product on the environment. Product stewardship means that all parties who have a role in designing, producing, selling or using a product assume responsibility for the environmental impacts of that product throughout its life. What is unique about product stewardship is its emphasis on the entire product system in achieving sustainable development. Product Stewardship extends manufacturers’ responsibility for products to the disposal and recycling stages. This shipft in respnsiblity provides an incentive for manufactureers to think differently about resources and materials so that toxicity reduction, reuse and recycling are considered at the product design stage. Under product stewardship, all participants in the product life cycle -- designers, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, users, recyclers and disposers -- share responsibility for the environmental effects of the products. Product Stewardship is an umbrella under which familiar environmental strategies exist: Design for the Environment, greening the supply chain, Pollution Prevention, resource conservation, take-back, product to service transition. These are but a few of the strategies that embody the principle of product stewardship. Product Stewardship Topics Why Product Stewardship? Business Tools for Product Stewardship Local Contacts Related Sites National EPA Product Stewardship Website Northwest Product Stewardship Council Recycling eCycling Pollution Prevention Local Contacts Judy Crockett, City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services, 1211 SW 5th Avenue, Room 800, Portland, OR 97204 Phone: (503)823-5545 E-mail: judyc@bes.ci.portland.or.us Lee Hatcher, Sustainable Seattle, 514 Minor Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5516, Phone: (206) 622-3522 Fax (206) 622-3611 E-mail: sustsea@halcyon.com Sego Jackson, Snohomish County, Solid Waste Division, 2930 Wetmore Avenue, Everett, WA 98201, Phone: (425) 388-6490 Fax:(425) 259-4945, E-mail: sego.jackson@co.snohomish.wa.us Chris Luboff, Seattle Public Utilities, 11D Dexter Horton Building, 710 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, Phone: (206) 684-7644 Fax: (206) 386-9147 E-mail: chris.luboff@ci.seattle.wa.us Nancy Malaret, Washington Citzens for Resource Conservation, 2536 Alki Avenue SW, Suite 228, Seattle, WA 98116, Phone: (206)675- 0836 E-mail: wcfrc@aol.com Eydie Pines, MC 5306 W, US EPA, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460, Phone: (703) 308-8807, E-mail: pines.eydie@epa.gov Bill Reed, King County Solid Waste Division, 400 Yesler Way, Room 600, Seattle, WA 98104, Phone: (206)296-4402 Fax: (206)296-0197 E-mail: bill.reed@metrokc.gov Viccy Salazar, US EPA - Region 10, 1200 6th Avenue, WCM-128, Seattle, WA 98101, Phone: (206) 553-1060 Fax: (206) 553-8509 E-mail: salazar.viccy@epa.gov Erv Sandlin, KC Comission for Marketing Recyclable Materials, 400 Yesler Way, Room 200, Seattle, WA 98104, Phone: (206) 296-4402 Fax: (206)296-4366, E-mail: erv.sandlin@metrokc.gov Alexandra Scott, King County Solid Waste, 400 Yesler Way, #600, Seattle, WA 98104, Phone: (206) 296-8454 Fax: (206) 296-0197 E-mail: alexandra.scott@metrokc.gov Lisa Sepanski, King County Solid Waste, 400 Yesler Way, #600, Seattle, WA 98104, Phone: (206) 296-4489 Fax: (206) 296-0197 E-mail: lisa.sepanski@metrokc.gov David Stitzhal, Full Circle Environmental, Inc., 2955 36th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144, Phone: (206) 723-0528 Fax: (206)723-2452 E-mail: fullcircle@nwnexus.com Ann Thorpe, King County Commission for Marketing Recyclable Materials, Department of Natural Resources, 400 Yesler Way, Room 200, Seattle, WA 98104, Phone: (206) 296-3740 Fax: (206) 296-4366 E-mail: ann.thorpe@metrokc.gov Top of page Unit: Solid Waste & Toxics Unit Point of contact: Viccy Salazar E-Mail: r10.epr@epa.gov Phone Number: (206) 553-1060 Last Updated: 03/03/2008

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