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Other Product Stewardship Councils
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Other Sustainability Organizations
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California Integrated Waste Management Board 
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Stewardship
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Clean Production Action
CPA partners with a wide range of organizations to help in developing policies and strategies that promote clean production. The link goes to CPA's 2003 EPR Tool Kit, a free downloadable compendium of information from Europe and elsewhere.
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Computer Take Back Campaign (CTBC)
CTBC is active throughout the U.S. and supports full producer responsibility for end-of-life electronic products.
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Environmental Leader
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Grass Roots Recycling Network (GRRN)
GRRN is the leading national organization advocating for Zero Waste and has resources for communities, businesses, and campuses implementing Zero Waste.
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Individual Producer Responsibility Works
A European alliance of industry & NGOs. “Individual producer responsibility encourages competition between companies on how to manage the end-of-life phase of their products. This in turn drives innovation, such as in business models, take-back logistics and design changes, to reduce the environmental impact of products at the end of their life.”
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Keep California Beautiful
Keep California Beautiful's mission is to ignite individual, community and corporate responsibility and pride through active resource conservation and waste minimization to enhance California's beauty for generations to come.
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Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
A leader in Product Stewardship activities, the State of Minnesota has product stewardship initiatives for electronics, carpet and paint.
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Pesticide Stewardship Alliance
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Product Policy Institute
The Product Policy Institute's mission is to develop and communicate a strong framework for product-focused environmental policies that advance sustainable production and consumption and good governance. PPI has been helping launch the California Product Stewardship Council.
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Product Stewardship Institute
The Product Stewardship Institute was created to assist state and local government agencies in establishing cooperative agreements with industry and environmental groups to reduce the health and environmental impacts from consumer product manufacture, use, storage, and disposal.
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Recycling Council of British Columbia
An NGO supporting the progressive EPR policies of the BC government.
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Raymond Communications
A web site with links to many informative articles about recycling and extended producer responsibility.
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Sustainable Packaging Coalition
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition is an industry working group inspired by cradle to cradle principles and dedicated to transforming packaging into a system that encourages economic prosperity and a sustainable flow of materials.
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Teleosis Institute
The Teleosis Institute is devoted to developing effective, sustainable health care provided by professionals who serve as environmental health stewards.
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Thermostat Recycling Corporation
The Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC), a not-for-profit corporation founded and operated by thermostat manufacturing companies, facilitates the nationwide collection of all brands of used, wall-mounted mercury-switch thermostats so that the mercury can be purified for re-use.
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Links to Product Stewardship Initiatives
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Take It Back Network — King & Snohomish Co, WA
-- Local Electronics Products Recovery Program 
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U.S. Product Stewardship Initiatives by Product Type - CIWMB
-- Apparel, Autos, Batteries, Beverage Containers and Other Packaging, Carpet, Electronics, Medical Industry, Mercury-Containing Products, Paint, Pesticides, Tires
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Product Stewardship Institute - Initiatives by Product Type
-- Carpet, Electronics, Gas Cylinders, Mercury Products, Paint, Pesticides, Pharmaceuticals, Phone Books, Radioactive Devices, Tires
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Northwest Product Stewardship Council - Initiatives by Product Type
-- Beverage Containers, Electronics, Medical, Mercury, Pharmaceuticals
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Green Purchasing
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