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Why not push the burden back onto the companies providing the goods in packages? If Walmart (or it's suppliers) had to prepay for the handling of the waste the
by garyrichardson 8y ago
Why not push the burden back onto the companies providing the goods in packages? If Walmart (or it's suppliers) had to prepay for the handling of the waste the products they sell come in you'd probably see a significant reduction in packaging.
- rapnie 8y agoIn The Netherlands we had a Packaging Tax for supermarkets for a while (it has been repealed after a short time, because of resistance and lobbying). I liked the idea, except there was a problem (IMHO) in how it was implemented, because there was no requirement to show the tax amount that was charged to the consumer on their receipt. If your receipt would say e.g. 'Groceries $30.00, Plastic tax: $2.05' then a consumer would have a real incentive to lower the amount of tax by choosing better packaging with less plastic.