Welcome to the Texas Product Stewardship Council Website

Plano TX become the first Texas jurisdiction
to adopt an Extended Producer Responsibility resolution!

What is Product Stewardship?

Product Stewardship, or Extended Producer Responsibility, is an environmental management strategy that means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses a product takes responsibility for minimizing the product's environmental impact throughout all stages of the products' life cycle, including end of life management. The greatest responsibility lies with whoever has the most ability to affect the full life cycle environmental impacts of the product. This is most often the producer of the product, though all within the product chain of commerce have roles.

Our Mission

Mission:  The Texas Product Stewardship Council was formed to shift Texas’ product waste management system from one focused on government funded and ratepayer financed waste diversion to one that relies on producer responsibility in order to reduce public costs and drive improvements in product design that promote environmental sustainability. The Texas Product Stewardship Council works to integrate the principles of product stewardship into the policy and economic structures of Texas.

Vision:  Our vision is that producers have the primary responsibility to establish, fund, and manage end of life systems for their products with State government setting the performance goals and ensuring accountability and transparency.

Who We Are:  We are an organization of local governments that work with State government, waste and recycling companies, water quality organizations, businesses of all types, non-profit organizations and product consumers to reduce waste and bring good public policy to the materials management industry.