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>We need to just force manufacturers to bear the costs of recycling their products 100% There's literally no way to do this. Any costs you try to pass on will
by parliament32 6y ago
>We need to just force manufacturers to bear the costs of recycling their products 100%
There's literally no way to do this. Any costs you try to pass on will just be passed to the customer, and there's no legal way to prevent that from happening. And no, the customer won't care about a 5c recycling tariff, which is about the most you could charge for this without getting sued to oblivion.
- keepingscore 6y agoI don't understand the sued comment. Why can we heavily tax gas to pay for roads but taxing plastics to pay for recycling costs is a non starter?
- parliament32 6y agoMaybe I misunderstood the parent but "force manufacturers to bear the costs" is very different from taxing the end consumer goods, no?