Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030

Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by kodablah on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:47PM (#16439516)

Imagine if they threw you in jail for it. I bet you'd think even harder and we'd definitely get rid of plastic bags.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by yongjik on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:00PM (#16439671)

If this is the best argument you can think of against 7-cent plastic bags, you might as well admit defeat and say that they are the greatest things since sliced bread, because that sounds about the same to me.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by monk_e_boy on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:49PM (#16439537)

Same idea for guns. Buy back guns for $10,000 each. Soon have guns under control and off the streets.

People would be breaking into each others houses to sell them.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by icebraining on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:10PM (#16440422)

Soon have guns under control

Or, more likely, they would make more guns to compensate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by sundvor on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:58PM (#16440857)

The implicit step one being that sale of guns / assault rifles were banned, as it should be.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by icebraining on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:39PM (#16441166)

The War on Drugs is a testament that simply banning something definitively means it disappears.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by kelnos on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:43PM (#16442230)

People don't get psychologically addicted to guns like they do to most drugs. Gun bans are perfectly successful in drastically reducing gun violence in countries other than the US.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by icebraining on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:50PM (#16442302)

I don't disagree, but most guns bans in other countries don't include paying $10k per weapon, which is the proposal here.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:01PM (#16443241)

People are plenty addicted to being paid $10K per to manufacture guns. Who needs to sell them?

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by kelnos on Saturday February 24, 2018 @05:54AM (#16452714)

I don't think you get what the word "addicted" means.

Also, obviously you need to ban the manufacture of such weapons before you offer to buy them back.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by oh_sigh on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:53PM (#16440222)

That would cost $3T if everyone turned their guns in.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by 794CD01 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:08PM (#16440401)

And would be a better use of the money than most other things the government does already.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by megy on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:58PM (#16443579)

Like schools, roads, medicare, research, etc??? OK.

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