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Re:A Shocking Amount of US “Recycling” Goes Straight to the ... by ryandrake on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:58PM (#33323749)
Product manufacturers should have to bear the cost of disposing the products/packaging they ship. It would be great if every product came stamped with some manufacturer ID code or something, and when you throw it away, the waste management company eventually scans it all and each manufacturer got billed based on material/weight/etc.
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Re:A Shocking Amount of US “Recycling” Goes Straight to the ... by Baader-Meinhof on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:13PM (#33323884)
Manufacturers would just transfers to the consumer. We have a CRV tax for each bottle/can here in California, and as far as I can tell, it has no affect on consumer behavior.
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Re:A Shocking Amount of US “Recycling” Goes Straight to the ... by gruez on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:22PM (#33323968)
>Manufacturers would just transfers to the consumer

As opposed to not transferring the cost when they're forced to use glass bottles or whatever? Plastic is used because it's cheap. Switching to alternatives would undoubtedly cost more money.

>We have a CRV tax for each bottle/can here in California, and as far as I can tell, it has no affect on consumer behavior.

Maybe this says something about the effectiveness of plastic bottles? If consumers/companies are still choosing plastic bottles even though they have to pay the disposal costs, maybe this means that plastic bottles are better as a whole and we shouldn't be trying to force a switch to alternatives?

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Re:A Shocking Amount of US “Recycling” Goes Straight to the ... by hinkley on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:21PM (#33323959)
Here it's become a cottage industry for the homeless to go around collecting and turning in materials.
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Re:A Shocking Amount of US “Recycling” Goes Straight to the ... by LordDragonfang on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:36PM (#33324095)
CRV doesn't work as well because it's not on the (literal) sticker price, so it gets appended after the consumer has already made a buying decision in most cases.
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