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Joseph Strahl Extended Producer Responsibility in the Lighting Sector Erik Rydén Abstract Progressive efforts in illumination and lighting service design have tended to concentrate on the physical design of the whole or parts of the luminaire to maximise lighting efficiency or on economic, information, and policy efforts to support increased use of energy efficient lighting. Concern about the end of life disposal or recycling usually have only involved the mercury in fluorescent tubes and have been mainly of a technical nature. Lighting program promotion design, execution, and later evaluation must take end of life maters into account to a greater extent. This paper proposes to introduce the concept of extended producer responsibility to the life cycle of luminaires as products as well as the lighting service sector. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy which seeks to diminish the total environmental impact from a product by making the manufacturer responsible for the entire life cycle of the product. EPR is implemented through administrative, economic and informative instruments and the composition of these instruments determines the precise EPR form. As the producer redesigns products fro disassembly, increases product recycling potential, or otherwise enhances the ability for an extended producer responsibility to be attained, costs for the producer should fall as material recovery loops are established. This paper seeks to widen the discussion of EPR to the energy sector by considering the ramifications this concept could have on the lighting sector and luminaire producers. There are many actors involved in an energy service perspective including the utilities, the consumer, and the manufacturers of lighting fixtures and lamps. When placing the EPR principle in a framework of energy services the "producer" is not necessarily the organisation which assembles the products purchased by consumers.
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