What is Product stewardship?
'''Product stewardship''' is a way of managing the [[Environment|environmental impacts]] of different products and materials. People involved in producing, selling, using and disposing of products have a shared responsibility to manage them in a way that reduces their impact, throughout their lifecycle, on the environment and on human [[Health and Safety|health and safety]]. This includes [[waste disposal]] measures in the [[distribution]] of an [[industrial]] [[Product (consumer goods)|product]]. That is, paying for the safe and proper disposal when you pay for the product, and relying on those who sold it to you, to dispose of it.<ref>Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy, [https://www.environment.gov.au/protection/waste-resource-recovery/product-stewardship Product Stewardship], accessed 29 September 2019</ref> The idea of '''product take-back''' is that the service of [[waste disposal]] is paid for at time of [[wikt:purchase|purchase]]. It is often applied to goods that become [[toxic waste]] if not disposed of properly. It is most familiar as the [[deposit bottle]] - where one pays for the [[loan]] of the bottle at the same time as one purchases what is inside it.<ref>United States Environment Protection Agency, [http://www.epa.gov/epr/ The United States Environment Protection Agency]</ref> The '''container deposit''' charged for a '''deposit bottle''' may be a [[fee]] to ''buy'' the bottle, separately from the fee to buy what it contains. If one returns the bottle, the fee is returned, and the [[supplier]] must return the bottle for [[re-use]] or [[recycling]]. The fee can be collected by anyone finding and returning the bottle, so it is common for people to collect these and return them as a means of surviving. This is quite common for instance among [[homeless]] people. [[Legal]] [[requirement]]s [[vary]]: the bottle itself may be considered simple [[property]] of the purchaser of the contents, or, the purchaser may have some [[obligation]] to return the bottle to som