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When you add the wrong things it lowers the value of the surrounding batch of material at the plant. So you aren’t playing it safe, just smug.
by wahnfrieden 4y ago
When you add the wrong things it lowers the value of the surrounding batch of material at the plant. So you aren’t playing it safe, just smug.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoIf he lives in a sane country, that cost will be passed onto the firms making the packaging, and they'll have further financial incentive to stop making non recyclable packaging. In countries run by and for faceless corporations they'll call it wishcycling and it becomes your fault.
- wahnfrieden 4y agono economy today prices in all these externalities. the form of capitalism you're defending is a fantasy, not a purer form that it can be reformed into
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoExtended producer responsibility has been around for decades now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibili...
- wahnfrieden 4y agomy point stands
- shapefrog 4y agoMy recycling all goes in the same bin - plastic, paper, glass etc barbaric as that is. If it turns out boxes from X are not recyclable - then I can only hope that the mass of them "reducing the profits of big waste corp" triggers a phone call from them to X and action happens - either the two parties come to an agreement or the waste company spends 50c sending me a flyer saying "please dont cost us $1000 by putting that packaging in your bin" or alternatively spends $5 an hour having someone on the line pick them out. Its capitalism, not even a liberal fantasy land model of capitalism, but a filthy greedy sweatshop child labour exploititive form of capitalism - thats how it is meant to work.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoThat doesn’t happen, there’s no market solution for this