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Re: Brad - TLC needs to minimize packaging
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:57:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> As far as government regulation of packaging goes, I think that so long
> as landfills are publicly financed, the government has an interest in
> reducing waste. Of course this should be handled by charging a fee per
> bag of trash (with lower, zero, or negative fees for properly cleaned
> and sorted recycleables, assuming there is a market for said
> recycleables). If the trash fees really represented the true cost of
> waste disposal (which I suspect would shock us if we paid per bag of
> trash), consumers would quickly demand a level of packaging which would
> minimize waste (whether it be no packaging at all, or recycleable
> packaging).
Hear hear. Trash fees DON'T cover costs because the government runs most
landfills, and regulates the rest. That regulation, by imposing standards
instead of using strict negligence, allows landfill operators to meet the
standards (of leachate, etc) but ignore the actual cleanup costs, transferring
them to the future.
> Of course if we had a true Liberatopia, most of these problems wouldn't
> exist, because all the costs and benefits would be properly balanced,
> instead of most of the costs being hidden.
Now you're talkin! It still wouldn't be perfect, though... remember there is no
perfect society. Only better or worse than now (or the same but different).
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| Sorry for so many posts on this boring subject, but... Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) transferring (...) I think if this particular industry (and nearly any other, for that matter) were privatized, the actual costs would go down (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I think that it's not so much a case of the consumer wanting more packaging, than that the companies perceive that larger packages sell better because the stupid consumer thinks he's getting a better deal. As far as government regulation of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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