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Re:K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee... by ryandrake on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:43PM (#18719389)
I always thought it would be good and fair to tax companies based on the cost to clean up their disposed products. Ideally as soon as something ends up in a landfill the company gets s bill. Make something reusable or recyclable? No tax. Make something designed to be thrown away? Your company ends up paying more. Implementation would be hard though.
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Re:K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee... by SllX on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:21PM (#18719776)
Not disagreeing, but the administrative overhead for tracking the cleanup is a lot worse than tracking the production.

The reason by the way I’m suggesting a tax on production is because a product isn’t necessarily a sale: the physical waste still exists even if it just sits in a warehouse before being disposed of.

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Re:K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee... by dwighttk on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:39PM (#18719965)
how does that save on administrative costs?
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Re:K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee... by SllX on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:18PM (#18720344)
The difference is a company report backed up by regular inspections and then a bill versus the labor necessary to separate waste, track down the responsible producer, estimate the cost of their wasted products and send them the bill.
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Re:K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee... by anigbrowl on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:32PM (#18720487)
Would you rather count production at a factory or wander around landfills attempting to estimate the same data after people throw the packaging away?
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