Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by mc32 on Saturday December 09, 2017 @10:01PM
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If we were to add externalities into the cost of things, it's likely this will have the added effect of bringing some of the previously off-shored jobs back home. Win-win. Environment wins, blue-collar, non-college American workers win. Possibly offsetting some of the "sharing" economy jobs trend and bring back some real jobs.
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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by qbrass on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:59AM
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More likely it gets off-shored somewhere else.
Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by chii on Sunday December 10, 2017 @03:21AM
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once goods became cheap, it's hard to make it expensive again (as consumers will have gotten used to the lower price). If it was possible to have the off-shoring, it will happen.
Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by mc32 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:29PM
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I think you can, if you build in durability (a phone that lasts 7-10 years vs 1-3 year lifecycle, for example. Or a toaster oven, or shoes which get repaired at the cobblers, etc. We can make the TCO of something cheaper long term, if lifetime and repairability are taken into account.
Now, unsaid is that means that advertising and consumerism must be minimized and provide utility other then make you buy the new shiny trendsetting thing.