1. Extended Product Responsibility (EPR) assumes that all participants in the product cycle play a role in finding ways to reduce environmental risk. Identify the specific role played by the average consumer in this effort.
2. Environmental technology is argued to be an important element in society's effort to achieve sustainable development.
a. Choose a specific market-based instrument that likely would encourage the advance of dark green technologies and improve U.S. exports of these goods and services. Explain using economic analytical tools.
b. Now propose a different market-based instru- ment that would foster the use of more light green technologies domestically and internationally.