Because we don’t close the loop. We find out asbestos and plastics and whatever else is dangerous actually and then go “ah shit” and that’s all. We don’t prosec

Because we don’t close the loop. We find out asbestos and plastics and whatever else is dangerous actually and then go “ah shit” and that’s all. We don’t prosecute the makers of it or charge for cleanup. Yeah we have superfunds for breathtakingly poor resource and conservation management, but with micro pollutants don’t have the same kind of knee jerk visceral reaction a major radioactive waste site does. We should have laws that say “if you make something, you own its entire lifecycle, including its safe and ecologically sound disposal.” That would turn the page on wasteful production almost overnight.