Thomas LINDHQVIST
Thomas Lindhqvist has worked with environmental research and policy since 1984. His focus has been on environmental product policy and management responses to these. He has done substantial work on waste management, recycling and prevention in Sweden, the EU, and the Nordic countries, in Canada, Argentina, India, China, Georgia, Ukraine and several other places. Besides working with academic research projects, he has worked with, for instance, Swedish Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, coining the EPR principle in 1990, OECD, Swedish Car Association developing their proposal for EPR system, and several NGOs. He defended his PhD on EPR in 2000.