The Crown per Kilo project is starting in March. This is a joint activity of the ASEKOL compliance scheme for e-waste take-back and the Czech National Disability Council (CNDC). For each kilogram of old e-waste people place into red containers from 1 March until the end of the year, the Rovná šance (Equal Chance) Endowment Fund, managed by the CNDC, will receive one crown. The project endeavours to support people with disabilities in acquiring employment.

The concept of extended producer responsibility (EPR) was first proposed in Sweden in 1990 by Professor Thomas Lindhqvist, a specialist in environmental issues at Lund University. Extended producer responsibility was defined as a strategy for products to have as little negative effect on the environment as possible by extending producers’ responsibility across products’ entire life cycles, and in particular to include take-back, recycling and final disposal of such products. The EPR strategy gradually became a part of EU legislation, and from there it spread to all member states. Today, it is one of the main pillars of waste management within the EU.

19th May, Žofín Palace in Prague