Thomas Lindhqvist                   Perth, 26 November 2001
Incentives for change
•Who is responsible for what?
- Individual responsibility vs. Collective
 •Are there relevant feed-back mechanisms built into the product system?
 •What do we know today?
- An IIIEE study of 21 Japanese and Swedish manufacturers of EEE and vehicles
Driving forces (scarcity of landfill, hazardous substances, costs, littering), Objectives (waste prevention, resource efficiency, hazardous substances, DfE) and its reflection to requirements
Individual = brand-related (feedback, market mechanism) vs collective = old-for-new (efficiency, industry-wide cooperation
Historical and orphaned products
Incentives, funding mechanisms, retroactive law