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Why not license plastic distribution -- and have an associated fee that gets reduced by actual recycling. This fee could slowly be ratcheted up, to allow for a
by boplicity 4y ago
Why not license plastic distribution -- and have an associated fee that gets reduced by actual recycling. This fee could slowly be ratcheted up, to allow for a transition, but, in short, it would make reusable plastic increasing expensive unless nearly all of it was provably recycled.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoThats basically what Europe does and a few pioneer US states are doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibili... Similar to renewable power, we basically already know the answer but we like arguing about problems more than solving them so progress is slow.