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Re:Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic by cynwoody on Friday August 02, 2013 @03:52PM (#6149259)
Sugar is artificially expensive. It's the government's fault, via tariffs and production caps.

It's time to make the sugar barons eat dirt (but free of tiny plastic beads — that would be cruel and unusual).

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Re:Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic by RobAley on Monday August 05, 2013 @05:14AM (#6159112)
Indeed, and Oil is artificially cheap (other subsidies aside, production, consumption and disposal of plastics usually don't include the pricing of externalities). Nevertheless, that is how it's priced, and that is why it's not used by these companies by choice.
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