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One thing I don't understand is why nobody seems to consider the obvious solution: put an exorbitant tax on every piece of single use plastic. If you had to pa
by jakobegger 7y ago
One thing I don't understand is why nobody seems to consider the obvious solution: put an exorbitant tax on every piece of single use plastic.
If you had to pay $1 for your coffee cup, and $1 extra for the lid, you might consider foregoing the lid. Or maybe you would even bring a reusable coffee cup from home.
- mavhc 7y agoTax everything the amount it costs to clean it up. That way a) people will reduce the pollution it causes so they can sell it cheaper, and b) people will invent cheaper ways to clean up pollution. If it costs $1 to clean it up, but only $0.50 to collect and recycle, problem solves itself.
- eb0la 7y ago> Tax everything the amount it costs to clean it up. And don't forget to keep that taxes up to date so recycling still costs less than cleaning in the future :-)
- yur3i__ 7y agoobvious to us yes, to big corp this is the opposite of a solution.
- radiator 7y agoIn Germany you pay a deposit of 0,25 € for your plastic bottle of water, which you get back when you return it empty in the supermarket. The empty bottle gets shredded, not sure where it ends up, though. This could be probably be extended to other kinds of plastic.
- mffnbs 7y agoI don't like the trend of putting the environmental onus on consumers. If you want to stop single use plastic then ban companies from producing it.