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WHEREAS, manufacturers and others along the product chain are able to reduce the environmental impact of their products and reduce the amount of trash directed to landfills and incinerators by creating and financing take-back programs, reducing packaging, designing products to be less toxic and easier to recycle, and providing consumers with the information they need to make responsible environmental purchasing, reuse, recycling, and disposal decisions; and WHEREAS, When producers are responsible for ensuring their products are reused, recycled or otherwise managed responsibly, and when health and environmental costs are included in the product price, there is an incentive to design products that use fewer resources, reduce unnecessary product elements and/or packaging, are easier to repair or reuse, use recycled materials, are more durable, are easier to recycle, and are less toxic; and WHEREAS, when end-of--life management costs are internalized in the price of a product, comprehensive market signals are provided to the consumer so they can make informed decisions; and WHEREAS, State government has incorporated principles of product stewardship into agreements with the battery and electronics industries to arrange for collection and recycling of their products at the end of their useful lives thus reducing adverse health and environmental impacts from these consumer products; and WHEREAS, Extended Producer Responsibility Framework approach is more efficient than trying to address individual products on a case-by-case basis because the framework establishes criteria, processes, and plans to provide a consistent yet flexible approach and a common set of expectations for identifying and evaluating products to be managed through EPR and for developing a stewardship program for those identified products; and WHEREAS, the National League of Cities and the National Association of Counties have endorsed the product stewardship framework approach. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Roseville urges the Minnesota Legislature to enact the Minnesota Product Stewardship Act and urges Congress to enact nationwide producer responsibility legislation. The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Member Johnson, and upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Johnson, Pust, Roe and Klausing and the following voted against the same: none. WHEREUPON said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.