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Laws mandating the builders of batteries to be responsible for their disposal, either via tax or by recycling/disposing them themselves are a necessity. Ultimat
by Traubenfuchs 4y ago
Laws mandating the builders of batteries to be responsible for their disposal, either via tax or by recycling/disposing them themselves are a necessity. Ultimately the users (car buyers) must shoulder the costs.
- zdragnar 4y agoThis is another way of saying screw poor people
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoI am not poor but don’t ever plan to own a car and I should not pay for the battery disposal of those who own electric cars.
- caymanjim 4y agoWhy limit it to batteries? Why not mandate that literally everything produced include up-front disposal/re-use taxes? Manufacturers have been externalizing the true cost of goods since prehistoric times. I don't think it'll happen, nor am I even sure it's a good idea, but there's nothing special about this one product.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoGood in theory but companies go out of business all the time, leaving no one responsible for the disposal. It could be better to have a disposal fee added to the purchase price and put into a fund that then is used for disposal costs. The unfortunate problem is that anytime there's a pool of money like that just sitting around, someone is going to find a way to access it for other purposes, often political. So another idea that's theoretically good but suffers from being implemented by humans that often have alternate agendas.
- MBCook 4y agoYou could mandate it to the company that sells the final product. Ford/GM/VW show no signs of disappearing any time soon, even if the individual part supplier they purchase from might.