This book provides an overview on the perspectives on managing products throughout their lifecycles in order to conserve resources, decrease environmental impact, and share the burden of responsibility. This book gives the reader a broad understanding of product stewardship and extended producer responsibility from many vantage points, while providing exemplary and precautionary case studies and expert discussion. Informative and timely, this reference will be useful to anyone engaged in or embarking on reducing impacts from consumer products by taking a product stewardship approach, which, at its core, holds manufacturers primarily accountable.

About the Author
Scott Cassel, MCP, is founder and serves as chief executive officer of the Product Stewardship Institute, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing lifecycle impacts of consumer products. He has more than 30 years of solid waste management experience. Cassel is past president of the North American Hazardous Materials Management Association (NAHMMA) and former director of Waste Policy and Planning for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. He has also worked for a private solid waste management company and a statewide environmental group. He lives in Massachusetts. Amy Cabaniss, PhD, MBA, has more than 30 years of experience as an environmental educator with applied research in conservation psychology. As adjunct faculty in the School of Business MBA Program at Southern Connecticut Stat'e University. Cabaniss teaches Business Ecology and Sustainability and The Research Project. She is the editor of Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste (Bernan Press). She is the past president of NAHMMA--Northeast Chapter and a former NAHMMA board member.She lives in Connecticut.


Book Information
ISBN 9781641433174
Author Scott Cassel
Format Paperback
Page Count 428
Imprint Bernan Press
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 581g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 152mm * 25mm