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Over time, a product stewardship program is likely to affect many aspects of your business.

For these reasons environmental groups involved in product stewardship were generally supportive of Bill 40.

Directly support new and established industry based product stewardship initiatives.

The scope of such product stewardship initiatives is now very wide.

It was decided that the product stewardship program would be a key focus of the renewed agreement.

Most corporate or industry product stewardship programs go well beyond these minimum requirements.

Many of these programs are using product stewardship approaches.

They will, therefore, do the same with any costs associated with a product stewardship program.

The policy encompasses extended producer responsibility and product stewardship programs.

All companies have an effective Product Stewardship management system and improvement plan.

There is no template for a product stewardship system.

Further product stewardship initiatives are being explored with other key brand owners.

These agreements also encourage innovation through implementing programs such as environmental management systems and product stewardship.

For the purposes of product stewardship, risk is a function of two factors.

More advanced policies deal with questions of due diligence, product stewardship and life cycle management.

• Product stewardship initiatives can provide some elements to support end-of-life management.

Germany and France have very strong producer responsibility (product stewardship) policies for packaging.

• Industry would support product stewardship incorporating the Code.

Product stewardship programs allow products to be collected and recycled at the end of their lifecycle.

The Act has provision for product stewardship of which container-deposit legislation is the most familiar type.

Science-based risk analysis backs this up, thanks to the industry's long-standing research and product stewardship efforts.

It concludes, "Each project that we work on includes, by our own policy, a comprehensive and individualized product stewardship program."

Additional programs for product stewardship also exist for batteries and tires.

Product stewardship is viewed as a business issue, and its importance is likely to increase with growing 'green' awareness.