Royal Philips Electronics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Waste Manag Res. 2011 Sep;29(9):911-8. doi: 10.1177/0734242X11416540. Epub 2011 Jul 19.
Producers are given increasing responsibility by governmental organizations to address environmental and human rights issues along the supply chain. While producers indeed have a responsibility to address these issues, governments' expectations of producers are often too high and in some cases unrealistic. Ruggie's framework to protect, respect and remedy provides a useful tool to determine the responsibilities of government and business in relation to human rights. If it is applied to product-related environmental aspects, which affect human rights, it offers a good tool to evaluate whether producer responsibility has been implemented in a way to institutionally align business and governments. An analysis of extended producer responsibility up and down the supply chain on the basis of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) legislation, REACH legislation and conflict minerals shows that such alignment has not been achieved.
政府组织越来越多地要求生产商在供应链中解决环境和人权问题。虽然生产商确实有责任解决这些问题，但政府对生产商的期望往往过高，在某些情况下不切实际。鲁格的保护、尊重和补救框架为确定政府和企业在人权方面的责任提供了一个有用的工具。如果将其应用于与产品相关的影响人权的环境方面，它为评估生产者责任是否以体制上使企业和政府保持一致的方式得到实施提供了一个很好的工具。对基于废弃电气和电子设备 (WEEE) 立法、REACH 立法和冲突矿物的供应链上下游延伸生产者责任的分析表明，这种一致性尚未实现。
