Product Stewardship
AROW promotes the principles of Product Stewardship to shift how products are managed in Wisconsin's communities at the end of their useful lives. By working together, producers, consumers and government can achieve sustainable solutions.
Product stewardship is a product-centered approach to environmental protection that calls on those in the product life cycle - designers, manufacturers, retailers, and consumers - to assume primary responsibility for minimizing the product's environmental impact through all stages of the product's life cycle and for paying the costs of managing the product at the end of its useful life.
AROW's Product Stewardship priorities are:
- To influence and support current product stewardship initiatives and legislation
- Develop framework product stewardship policy for AROW
- Educate members and their superiors regarding product stewardship initiatives
- Identify/shape product stewardship legislative priorities for WI
AROW Product Stewardship Policy
2009-2012 AROW Product Stewardship Goals
2009 Wisconsin ACT 50 - Electronics Recycling Bill
AROW Product Stewardship Survey Results
AROW's Product Stewardship Committee
AROW's Product Stewardship Committee, made up of AROW's local government, state government, industry consultant, and private sector members, advises and guides the organization's product stewardship initiatives.
Committee Contacts
Jennifer Havens (St. Croix County), Co-chair: jenniferha(at)co.saint-croix.wi.us
Karen Fiedler (Waukesha County), Co-chair: kfiedler(at)waukeshacounty.gov
Angie Lemar, AROW Program Director: programs(at)arow-online.org
Upcoming Meeting Information
Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 1:30-3:00 PM Conference Call
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