The Center for Clean Products was established in 1992 through a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and is currently housed within the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE). The center develops, evaluates, and promotes cleaner technologies that minimize pollution at the source and contribute to long-term, sustainable development. In keeping with its commitment to reduce pollution and waste, CCP also pioneered the principle of extended product responsibility in the United States, and it assisted the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in shaping recommendations for the principle’s implementation. The principle maintains that throughout the product chain, companies and individuals must accept and share responsibility for minimizing the adverse environmental impacts of the whole life cycle of the products they produce and use.