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"It’s not uncommon for manufacturers of computers or tires to ask consumers to pay an extra fee at the time of purchase for the cost of collecting and recycling
by circusfly 3y ago
"It’s not uncommon for manufacturers of computers or tires to ask consumers to pay an extra fee at the time of purchase for the cost of collecting and recycling the product."
The quote is stating that expenses are passed to the consumer, how is that good? It's also talking about things like tires, I think we can all agree the world wouldn't function without tires unless we're all willing to go back to the horse and buggy?
- axus 3y agoI don't want to pay for the cleanup of pollution, let the farmer and farmer's customers pay for that.
- maxk42 3y agoYou are the farmer's customer.
- insider-trade 3y agoSo you’re against putting economic disincentives on plastic pollution… … but you don’t believe in market forces coming into play to drive consumers to less expensive food grown by farmers who use less plastic.
- maxk42 3y agoAre you replying to the right person?
- 2000UltraDeluxe 3y agoSo, everyone that buys food?
- insider-trade 3y agoYes lol. I can’t believe you have difficulty understanding that costs that go into producing food accumulate into the cost of the food. Or is plastic pollution the part you don’t understand? Either way, both are simple.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 3y agoI live down-wind of most of said plastic garbage where I live. Trust me: by now I'd happily pay the neighbours to clean their own plastic garbage from my field. Right now it costs me a day of work every spring to get rud of it.
- whimsicalism 3y agoPurchasers should pay externality costs, that is good. If they can’t afford the plastic now, society was losing on the transaction originally.
- Ekaros 3y agoIs there any other way? Either it can be extra fee or included in the price. In every case the buyer will end up paying for it one way or an other. And either of those is better than it being paid from general taxes.