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This Note explores the mandates adopted by the European Union and individual European states and examines the feasibility of their implementation in the United States. Part II outlines the current extended producer responsibility schemes in Europe and the current waste disposal system in the United States. Part III examines the societal and cultural differences that account for varying environmental attitudes in Europe and the United States, with a focus on Germany. Part IV discusses the feasibility of developing national take-back requirements in the United States by examining legislative obstacles and other barriers. Part V offers a conclusion and recommendation for the United States that builds on the strengths of the European regimes' schemes while recognizing the weaknesses of those plans.

Intro -- Critical Discourse Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Perspective -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Introductory Aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis -- Critical Discourse Analysis: An Overview -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Key Concepts in CDA -- Conclusion -- References -- Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- General Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics -- Pragmatics -- Conclusion -- References -- Systematic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Use of Systemic Functional Linguistics in CDA -- Four Grammatical Concepts for CDA -- Conclusion -- References -- What Is a Text? Questions of Boundaries and Limits -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Interrogating the Idea of 'Text' -- Bourdieu: Thinking about Limits -- Text, Context and Commentary -- Conclusion -- References -- Applying Membership Categorisation Analysis to Discourse: When the "Tripwire Critique' Is not Enough -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Categorial Organisation: Membership Categorisation -- Membership Categorisation Devices -- Conclusion -- References -- Critical Discourse Analysis and the Problem of Methodology -- Abstract -- Introduction -- CDA and Methodology -- Three Critical Questions for Methodological Debate in CDA -- Reflexivity and Methodology: The Case of Ethnography -- Conclusion -- References -- The Antinomies of Power in Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Power as Domination: Negative Power -- Power as Knowledge: Positive Power -- Reformulating a Critical Discourse Ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- Being Self-critical in Research as a Meaning Making Process -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Meaning of Meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Critical Discourse Analysis across Disciplines.