Such a law drivesresponsibility upstream where it belongs and moreover serves as a strong incentive to solve the problem at source (through greener, toxic-free design) of products that can be recycled readily and safely anywhere on earth.
Although the first set of results shows the benefit to customers, Cohen says, the next step is to explore PBC's impact on suppliers by analyzing what drives the improvement in reliability and how much it costs suppliers when the responsibility to manage the contracts falls more heavily on them than on their customers.