Printing Industry Updates

  Posted On:   Jul 02, 2020

Printing SA members will recall the industry waste management plans under Section 28 published in December 2017. Fast-forward in December 2019, the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Barbara Creecy closed Section 28 process by rejecting all plans and announced that she will engage with stakeholders in order to propose the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework process under Section 18 of Waste Act. EPR is a global approach which takes into account the waste produced by industry and the mechanism used to deal with the products used by the industry that become waste.

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