USAID Extended Producer Responsibility Roundtable (EPR) Summary

Extended producer responsibility as a policy tool to reduce plastic pollution in lower- and middle-income countries

In Indonesia, CCBO is supporting the government to reduce land-based sources of ocean plastic pollution through its national Solid Waste Management Platform. As part of this work, CCBO is also engaging in sites throughout the country to pilot solutions to stop the flow of plastic pollution, which includes Semarang, Makassar, and Ambon. Photo by: Giulia Erika Soria/Clean Cities, Blue Ocean

In May 2022, USAID’s Green Cities Division brought together 41 diverse voices from leading private sector
companies, development agencies, national and local governments, academia, and NGOs for a virtual
roundtable to discuss the challenges of implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) as a policy tool to reduce plastic pollution in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Roundtable was the first in a series of conversations with the goal of long-term collaboration to enable and promote effective EPR implementation for plastics.

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