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WEPSI Meetings & Stakeholders
WEPSI includes the eight-state western region of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Organizers are involved in several projects in the region. Pacific Northwest Multi-Stakeholder Meetings (WEPSI-NW) WEPSI-NW Meeting Minutes In order to assure that WEPSI participants can talk openly without concern about being quoted out of context, a draft "Ground Rules for Communications" (PDF) is proposed to the participants. WEPSI-NW organizers are representatives from federal, state and local agencies, nonprofits, manufacturers and recyclers in the four-state region of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. This multi-stakeholder dialogue began on July 18, 2001, in Portland, Oregon, and included five meetings held in the Pacific Northwest. These meetings brought together manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, recyclers, non-profit organizations, government and others to provide input to the NEPSI process and to develop an agreement on the characteristics and features of a sustainable product stewardship system. This system will seek to internalize motivations to design and produce environmentally-friendly products, rather than simply to mandate actions, and to recover electronic products for reuse and recycling at the end of their useful lives through means that are as consistent as practical throughout the western states. The agreement was formalized in an Action Plan in August 2002 that highlights activities that government, industry and non-profit organizations in the West can take to catalyze market and infrastructure development for product stewardship. Click here for organizing and stakeholder meeting summaries. The stakeholders formed subgroups, and researched four issues: design; policy and regulations; financing and market drivers; and the recycling system. For subgroup information, click here.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)For information about Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, visit The Northwest Product Stewarship Council's Web site: www.productstewardship.net.
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