Armenia`s Ministry of Environment proposes introducing institute of  extended producer responsibility for producers 

ArmInfo. The Ministry of Environment proposes to introduce the institute of extended producer responsibility (EPR), which provides for a system of ensuring the mandatory further use of certain types of waste (special waste) by producers and importers of certain goods.

As stated in the explanatory note to the document, in order to ensure  the effective implementation of this system, the package of projects  proposes, among other things, the creation of producer responsibility  organizations, an economically efficient and self-financing economic  model for collecting financial resources, regulation of EPR relations  with producers, state and local authorities, as well as  environmental, financial, legal and information tools to ensure the  implementation of the EPR institute.

"The proposed regulations are aimed at ensuring the mandatory use of  certain types of waste (special waste) in environmentally friendly  ways. These methods include sorted collection of special waste  (primary sorting at the source), secondary sorting (factory sorting  of waste that has undergone primary sorting), transportation,  storage, placement, reuse, processing, recycling, recovery, disposal  and burial, which have a minimal impact on the environment, human  health and the climate," the authors of the initiative noted.