Some Fundamentals on the Polluter Pays Principle

Today I am reading an article in the Utrecht Law Review titled: The Polluter Pays Principle: Guidelines for Cost Recovery and Burden Sharing in the Case Law of the European Court of Justice by Petra E. Lindhout and Berthy van den Broek. The article contains a chapter that describes the fundamentals of the polluter pays principle, which are very important, in order to establish how extended producer responsibility derives from the polluter pays principle. The article pointedly notes that environmental damage comes not only in the form of pollution but, also, in the form of the depletion of natural resources which are finite.