The podcast episodes discuss how EPR policies and their relationship with circular economy practices, particularly their focus on recycling and potential conflicts with promoting reuse and longer product lifetimes.

Episode Creating a Circular Economy for Electronics with Jessika Luth Richter explores how EPR and eco-design regulations can enable the repair and longer lifetimes of electronics, as well as the challenges around conflicts between recycling targets and reuse opportunities, recovering critical raw materials, and the limitations of the circular economy concept.

Episode #51: Creating a Circular Economy Value Chain for Plastics Packaging with Graham Houlder discusses the role of EPR systems in funding and managing the collection and recycling of flexible packaging, and the importance of collaboration across the value chain and the potential of chemical recycling.