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It seems to me like there needs to be a way for households to be paid for their recycling. I don't know how it could practically be done, but if a household's
by newnewpdro 8y ago
It seems to me like there needs to be a way for households to be paid for their recycling.
I don't know how it could practically be done, but if a household's recycling contributions could be tagged and tracked throughought the system somehow - then we could pay them for well-formed recycling, and not pay them (or charge them for waste disposal) when it's not well-formed.
There's your feedback loop.
- paulmd 8y agoThe feedback loop is we charge those who produce non-recyclable products for polluting the planet and then they stop doing that over time. It's really not hard, we don't charge consumers for producing CO2, we charge suppliers who produce CO2 and they either stop doing that, or charge more for their products and consumers choose the suppliers who stop doing that. We can even let suppliers trade amongst each other to see who can stop doing that best. It's not that weird a thing, it was a conservative policy back in Reagan's day.
- newnewpdro 8y agoHow does this fix the behavior of consumers misusing recycling bins?
- paulmd 8y agoIt doesn't. It pays for someone else to come through and fix the mistake consumers are making down the road. You make products that people don't bother to recycle, or that people easily mis-recycle into the wrong bin, you pay to fix it. Example: plastic bag tax. We could just as easily tax envelopes with plastic windows in them.