Doing the right thing is expensive in many different ways; time, money, opportunity, etc. Whenever a company exploits a process to squeeze out extra profit we

Doing the right thing is expensive in many different ways; time, money, opportunity, etc. Whenever a company exploits a process to squeeze out extra profit we all assume the newly externalized costs. All products should be recycled at the end of their life and the costs involved should be built into the price. Some states mandate a redeemable deposit for cans and bottles. Perhaps every the United States could craft a responsible recycling program that tacks an appropriate tax onto a product that reflects the cost of a recycling the worst 10% off products in a category. I gladly pay to safely dispose my household waste responsibly, why must I continue to pay for companies that cleverly escape bearing these costs? The harms have been exhaustively calculated and established. I’m sick of being terrorized by belligerent psychopaths that feel entitled to pollute and contaminate everything they set their insatiable eyes upon.