2014 TOKYO GLOBAL FORUM

• OECD Global Forum on Environment: Promoting Sustainable Materials Management through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Tokyo, Japan, June 2014.

 

2008 TEL-AVIV WORKSHOP

The second workshop was held in 2008 in Tel-Aviv, Israel, focusing on the contributions by the private sector to Sustainable Materials Management and by NGOs and international organisations. The workshop report provides a summary of discussions. More specifically, the workshop:

• took stock of major existing initiatives related to SMM within i) the public sector, through a survey; ii) the private sector, through representative case studies; and iii) international organisations, through an inventory;
• identified and analysed methodologies to assess environmental impacts of materials use; and
• discussed the potential contribution of the OECD to the future development of SMM activities within the member countries and beyond.

 

2005 SEOUL WORKSHOP

The first OECD workshop on Sustainable Materials Management was held in 2005 in Seoul, Korea, to take stock of existing understandings on and approaches towards SMM, explore the potential elements of SMM and provide guidance for OECD's future work in this area. The workshop outcome provided, among others, the following working definition for SMM:

Sustainable Materials Management is an approach to promote sustainable materials use,
integrating actions targeted at reducing negative environmental impacts and preserving natural capital throughout the life-cycle of materials,
taking into account economic efficiency and social equity.

oecd work on...

• Sustainable Materials Management (SMM)
• OECD Council Recommendation on Resource Productivity - C(2008)40