Take Back Legislations in the US compared to other Countries

Take Back Legislations in the US compared to other Countries Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Take Back Legislations in the US compared to other Countries Take back legislations compel manufacturers to take care of the products they sell to the customers as they are expected to collect them or the customers will return them for proper disposal or recycling. Hasan (2018) notes that there are over half a million electronic devices that go to waste every year, and only a fraction of the devices goes to recycling facilities. In an effort to curb the environmental hazard, the components of these devices, legislation has been proposed in the US to compel manufacturers to be held responsible for the disposal of the electronic products. Countries, especially European countries led by the European Union and in Japan have come up with regulations requiring manufacturers to develop environmentally friendly products and be in charge of disposing them once consumers are done utilizing the products (Atasu, Wassenhove, & Sarvary, 2009). The outcome of the registration is that companies take comprehensive measures to design products and organize means of collecting them after use, effectively managi...