Re:Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills
by saila on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:30AM
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It sounds like you’re saying that regulation, not an unrestrained free market, could solve this problem.
Re:Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills
by stuaxo on Monday July 29, 2019 @04:18AM
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Indeed, the idea of a free market is a myth.
Markets only function because there are rules, we just argue about what they should be.
Re:Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills
by rebuilder on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:07AM
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There's no such thing as a free market, except as a hypothetical construct. Markets are always regulated, if not by governments, then by large market participants who can use their clout to create conditions favourable to themselves.
It's up to the political system to to produce those, and it's proven incapable.
For example, we've known for a long time what will solve global warming most effectively: Carbon taxes. Preferably global ones, but local ones are the correct regional step.
And our political systems have spent decades doing everything except this simple thing that will actually work.