Archive - Author: Lucy Cox

Unlocking Solutions for Waste Management and the Circular Economy: A deep dive into current practices, waste policy & regulations

Thursday, 28 August 2025 | 09:00–18:00 | CCBB Rio de Janeiro | 4th Floor – Multiuse Room With extensive experience in waste management and inclusive circular economy models, BVRio is convening this multi-stakeholder event to explore Brazil’s regulatory framework and showcase practical solutions across the waste value chain. Panels: International waste policy and the global […]

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Opportunities and Challenges to Scale Up Ecological Restoration in Brazil

Tuesday, 26 August 2025 | 09:00–12:30 | CCBB Rio de Janeiro | 4th Floor – Multiuse Room Drawing on its expertise in this field, BVRio, in partnership with other organisations, will host this event to promote dialogue on the strategies, partnerships and financial mechanisms needed to scale up ecological restoration efforts in Brazil. Panel 1: […]

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EPR Focus: Who pays?

By Thierry Sanders, Founder, of Kolekt Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is gaining traction globally as a vital policy tool to tackle the growing challenge of waste management. The principle is simple yet powerful: the companies that introduce products and packaging into the market should bear the financial and/or physical responsibility for their post-consumer fate. For […]

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EPR Focus: In verifying EPR, declaring products, not just material Kgs is essential

By Thierry Sanders, Founder of KOLEKT A seemingly technical detail in Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulation holds the key to its success or failure: how producers declare the packaging they put on the market. Two approaches are vying for policymakers’ attention: The first, simpler at first glance, asks companies to report the total weight (in […]

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EPR Focus: VAT and EPR Regulations: A recipe for waste picker exclusion

By Kolekt Director, Thierry Sanders. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes, designed to make manufacturers shoulder the burden of managing their products’ post-consumer fate, are increasingly seen as a vital tool in the fight against the global waste crisis. Yet, in many emerging economies, an unlikely antagonist is undermining their effectiveness: Value Added Tax (VAT). This seemingly innocuous […]

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EPR Focus: Should EPR be a top-down affair, orchestrated by government decree, or a bottom-up initiative driven by industry itself?

Whose Rubbish Is It Anyway? The Battle for Control of Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations. By Kolekt Director, Thierry Sanders. The bins overflow, the landfills bulge, and the tide of discarded packaging, electronics, and textiles continues to rise. In response, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) – a system holding producers accountable for the post-consumer fate of their […]

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21 critical decision points governments must address to optimise EPR regulations

The global spotlight on national waste legislation is intensifying, and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) stands at the forefront. EPR offers a compelling solution for financing sustainable waste management, embodying the ‘polluter pays’ principle. Simply put, EPR mandates that producers, importers, and brands take responsibility for the lifecycle of their products, either by directly managing waste […]

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EPR Focus: How to involve informal collectors

By Maria Accioly, Pedro Succar and Thierry Sanders   Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations are reshaping global waste management. While approximately 40 countries have implemented EPR, significantly increasing waste management budgets, a stark disparity exists. About 150 countries, many low-income, lack EPR and rely heavily on an estimated 20 million informal waste pickers.  KOLEKT has […]

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EPR Focus: Mandatory vs. Voluntary Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

As of today, some 40 nations have placed the responsibility for the collection of packaging waste or the payment of the waste collection costs with the companies that sell the products and packaging. This regulation, called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), is probably the most effective step taken in decades to generate more funds for waste […]

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Annual Report 2024

BVRio is a non-profit organisation working at the intersection of economic, environmental and social sustainability. Our mission is to design and promote innovative market-based solutions for the benefit of the economy, the environment and people.

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