Thesis Title Study On Extended Producer Responsibility System Under The Circular Economy

Human society has experienced rapid economic growth while also accompanied by depletion of natural resources, serious environmental pollution facts. In order to solve a large number of waste, improve resource utilization, in order to achieve the circular economy, extended producer responsibility system has been created. Extended Producer Responsibility System (Extended Producer Responsibility hereinafter referred to as EPR system) is a new type of environmental policy, which will be the responsibility of the producer to the product life cycle, an extension of the upstream and downstream, in particular, focus on product recycling post-consumer waste, reuse and disposal responsibilities to achieve the product throughout the life cycle environmental protection. Since 1988, the Swedish scholar, Professor Thomas has proposed the concept of Extended Producer Responsibility, EPR system has gone through 20 years of development, in theory and in practice has been increasingly improved, the typical representatives are:Sweden, Germany, the United States, Japan and the European Union area.Relative to the EPR system in developed countries,which the theory and practice of EPR system is very perfect, China's EPR system is still in its early stages of development, both in the EPR theory and the EPR practice, with the developed countries there is a big gap. Facing the fact which China's per capita resources are limited, and a large number of generated waste and environmental destruction, establish and perfect the EPR system is an imperative task. Circular economy development model has become the future of our country's economic development model, while the EPR system is an important component of circular economy, the achievement of sustainable development has an important significance. EPR systems having now been the great concern of China's scholars, scholars having conducted in-depth, systematic research, and along with "The People's Republic of China Circular Economy Promotion Law", the promulgation and implementation of the system in our legislation is beginning to show System Development trend. In this paper, I want to introduce the development of the concept of EPR system, the system described the theoretical basis as well as the EPR system is implemented the status of inspection in developed countries, trying to make some useful references for our EPR system.This paper is divided into four parts. The first part is introducing the process of development of the EPR,and putting forward two kinds of representation of the view that the "EU perspective" and "American perspective," most countries of the world in favor of the former, but also a detailed analysis of the EPR system in three specific elements. The second part, I am expounding the EPR system, focusing on the theoretical basis, setting out five major theories in detail about the product life cycle, corporate social responsibility, environmental rights, sustainable development, circular economy and the relationship between them and the EPR system. The third part, I am focusing on the EPR legislation in Sweden, Germany, the United States, Japan and the European Union and several other more advanced countries and regions, and analyzing their respective features, on this basis, the implementation of objects, implementation modalities, implementation of the approach and related issues such as supporting the system are analyzed. The fourth part I am mainly analyzing the EPR legislation in our present situation of our country, putting out the absence of EPR legislation, combined with the necessity and feasibility about China's implementation of the EPR system, so putting forward the EPR system from the level of legislation in line with China's national conditions.