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Equating cost with environmental friendliness might not be the best thing to do because this exactly fails in systems where externalities are not priced in yet.
by _Microft 5y ago
Equating cost with environmental friendliness might not be the best thing to do because this exactly fails in systems where externalities are not priced in yet.
- robocat 5y agoI agree. But the externalities of sorting/cleaning/transportation would also need to be measured. The article sort of mentions this, but overall it is a typically unbalanced "recycling is 100% good" and "More countries need to pass laws to reduce waste and eventually stop sending glass to landfill" without the balance of looking at the total waste of recycling versus using virgin material. Meanwhile, I think money is often a good proxy for environmental damage (especially as an individual), because the safest bet is to assume externalities are similar even for two very different choices.