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There is a government restriction on plastic waste and it's passed onto consumers - it's the cost of garbage disposal. The secret is that the cost of disposing

There is a government restriction on plastic waste and it's passed onto consumers - it's the cost of garbage disposal. The secret is that the cost of disposing of plastics into landfills is really, really cheap. Cheaper even than producing them. So the cost is pretty miniscule. I'm all for taxing externalities and making consumers pay for their environmental damage, but there's not a strong case that plastics properly disposed of have a huge environmental impact.

BobaFloutist 3y ago
What about the impact of their manufacture? Also when you try to price externalities purely by charging for disposal, you get illegal dumping.
titzer 3y ago
I say ban all the plastic. If even 1% of is disposed of improperly, you get a deluge of plastic litter that accumulates in the environment. I've picked up hundreds of bags of this stuff, personally. "Properly disposed of" bothers me, because I've seen far too much of accumulating in ditches, waterways, roadsides, etc, to ever believe that fairly tale. People are trash monkeys and will. not. dispose. of. it. properly.