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Re:'The eels were climbing out of the water to die' by ambicapter on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:48AM (#50007299)
The biggest contributors to waste are corporations by many, many orders of magnitude. If you added the tax on these materials at the point of sale then the people who are actually generating this toxic waste would be the ones paying for its (free) disposal.
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Re:'The eels were climbing out of the water to die' by card_zero on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:57AM (#50007440)
It's a big waste disposal problem when you've got a magniturde. (I enjoyed the serendipitous typo while it lasted.)

I don't know, my mind turns to enormous flytipping sites like this one: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdew6j2lxplo

I guess it's a kind of business that's behind these, but I don't think they're run by corporations.

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