The increasing amount of waste is an important problem in our society. There are many different policies to reduce waste and to stimulate recovery and recycling, for example through a circular...Show moreThe increasing amount of waste is an important problem in our society. There are many different policies to reduce waste and to stimulate recovery and recycling, for example through a circular economy. An important policy is the one of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). With EPR the financial and/or organizational responsibility of products post-consumption is assigned to the producers, instead to the consumers. Previous research usually focused on the effect of one EPR scheme in one country. This thesis tries to understand the influence of EPR schemes on municipal waste generation, recovery, recycling and landfill rates by performing a cross country analysis over 33 countries. The results are inconsistent and not convincing enough to support the hypothesis. This could be the case because lack of data, or maybe the EPR schemes do not function optimally in reducing waste and landfill and increasing recycling and recovery.Show less
