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This not “well run” landfill literally exists because the companies/countries dumping their e-waste here do not want to pay for the “well run” ones.
by yunohn 2y ago
This not “well run” landfill literally exists because the companies/countries dumping their e-waste here do not want to pay for the “well run” ones.
- naming_the_user 2y agoSure, so let's make them pay for it, job done. If I go to the loo and my water company decides it's cheaper to dump human faeces in the middle of the M1 motorway than to dispose of it properly, the solution isn't for me to stop going to the loo, it's to force my water company to stop doing that.
- netsharc 2y ago> make them pay for it Which in turn will mean more expensive products. Products of imaginary Company A, which is responsible, will be more expensive than products of Company B, which can use all the tricks to be cheap (e.g. conflict minerals, child/slave labour, bribing^W lobbying government officials to take their e-waste). And which products will the consumer buy? The better priced one...
- naming_the_user 2y agoYes, just like I use the cheaper electricity producer that burns coal. Actually, no, my government doesn't allow this.
- bastawhiz 2y agoPart of "making them pay" is making all of the companies pay, which makes your argument sort of moot. If not all companies are being made to pay, then you haven't done anything.
- lomase 2y agoI leaved my last company because they dumped 10 to 15 15v bateries every day to the rubish. There are laws against that. Impossible to enforce.
- hackable_sand 2y agoStop going to the loo 20 times a day. Someone still has to clean up after you.