I (Josh Lepawsky) claim that what Valverde (2009) calls the ‘work of jurisdiction’ operates against instituting EPR systems. Examining the work of jurisdiction in the legislative governance of e-waste shows that the financial responsibility for e-waste management is delegated to consumers, rather than producers. As a consequence, it is very unlikely that the emerging legislative governance of e-waste in Canada and the US will succeed in instituting an EPR regime that results in clean(er) and green(er) manufacturing of electronics. 

Meta-Actor: Scientific Community

Source Document: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718512000668

Date: November, 2012