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The US has to pay to deal with the recycled paper, and I'm pretty sure it was cheaper to pay to ship it to China. So why not ship it to India? Container ships a
by skookumchuck 8y ago
The US has to pay to deal with the recycled paper, and I'm pretty sure it was cheaper to pay to ship it to China. So why not ship it to India? Container ships are very cheap.
> I note that people in USA have chosen plastic packaging for many applications.
Because it's cheaper. Taxing it fixes that.
> more children dying of starvation.
Geez, use the taxes to subsidize the paper packaging. This isn't all that difficult to figure out.
- jessaustin 8y agoYou seem to think this will be easy, this taxing-and-cross-subsidization. It has been proposed often enough to imagine that might be the case. Where has it been implemented? How did it work there? Might there be reason to suspect that it would be easier in a place where complicated tax laws already exist and most residents already pay taxes? Please note, the watersheds producing the bulk of this pollution are not such places. If you can't convince Americans to implement this scheme, why do you expect it will be easy to convince people in Southeast Asia?