Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says

Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by theptip on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:19AM (#24719895)

I think cleaning up old sites should be prioritized; this is kind of the same commons maintenance as decommissioning old nuclear reactors.

Unfortunately the purely-for-profit structure of these long-term ventures can mean that there is no money to cover the cleanup if things go really wrong, depending on who owns the site. I think you need to look at some sort of cleanup fund in escrow as a precondition for building sites like this, which should incentivize improvements in safety measures too.

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by FooHentai on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:11PM (#24723348)

For sure, I’ve argued for an equivalent of the superfund for NZ previously, and to bring it to bear on site remediations such as this. It’s not a perfect model, but heck it’s better than doing things ad-hoc and asking for point funding, turning things that should have been foreseen and managed over the long term into unpleasant sudden surprises.

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