Who Bears the Cost of Recycling?

[@uzmam1558]

Best thing to do.....not use single use plastic

[@karencloskey7147]

Glass bottles are great but hard to find and breakable.

[@bubbajones6907]

What's wrong with single use plastic if it just ends up in landfill? You're not making any sense.

[@tna2me197]

Ummmmmm “Making producers pay”. Who do you think ends up paying for it? The consumer who buys it. The company will have to raise their prices. They seriously have to ask this question? “No measurable increase in pricing”? This is insanity.

[@kevjtnbtmglr]

True but the packaging will affect the price more. So, whoever has the least wasteful packaging can sell it cheaper.

[@coconuttreeseverywhere4925]

Most idealist solution is total independence from stores. Grow your own food, water, clothes, heat, shelter. Off grid, bushcraft, arm-bearing community sounds better and better every second

[@TheWunder]

Countries will have to decentralize. Cities cannot exist anymore. It would be interesting

[@lisa._.the._.lovely]

Keyword: idealistic

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

"It cost 67% more to recycle than throw away" ..erm, is that a surprise to ANYONE?!? The point has always been to re-use materials, long term benefits where never because it was cheaper than landfill!! Like renewable Energy, it's still relatively new and needs to be developed to increase scale, and efficiency - bringing down costs. And companies need to b required to phase out all the non-renewble plastics or very difficult to renew packaging. Just in terms of money, in the end it will be FAR CHEAPER to recycle than exporting or burying our rubbish. 😎👍

[@bubbajones6907]

That's just ignorant. What do you think happens to trash which goes into landfills? All trash has always been recycled, long before political operatives started funneling tax payers funds into these waste management corporations. I will never sort trash. I'm just one of many people who will deliberately place food scraps into recycling bins.

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

@@bubbajones6907 😆 😅 😂 thank you, that's the funniest thing I've read in a while! 🤣

[@danny-li6io]

What makes one person feel like a hero, makes big corporations wealthy and destroys the environment.

[@bubbajones6907]

Recycling is also a symbolic way of transcending death. That's probably why recycling seems to be so popular with old farts and atheists. It's bizarre how people's repressed emotions inhibit rational thought. The recycling cult makes no sense to honest people.

[@bubbajones6907]

This should help explain why boomers are so attached to recycling as they approach their inevitable death. kzbin.info/www/bejne/an6Vp6uVh6iqidU

[@bubbajones6907]

You might find Heaven's Gate funny. They were a recycling suicide cult which also promoted belief in aliens. Alien cults and recycling naturally go together, as the irrational belief in aliens is used to satisfy an emotional desire to transcend their mundane existence. There are many funny and bizarre videos from this cult. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4TWiaijhq-nedU

[@navysteve95]

consumer demand is killing the environment. We are the common denominator

[@stuartd9741]

@@navysteve95 So we don't eat drink or go to work then? Perhaps you'd prefer It if people stopped breathing ? Might cut down on co2 emissions.... The problem is the corporations not making or using recyclable packaging..

[@MyMy-tv7fd]

I have long favoured pyrolysis for plastic as it produces cheap energy and reduces it to tiny amounts of ash

[@hopefisher6549]

Get rid of the plastic and go back to glass

[@lisa._.the._.lovely]

Oh my God, what the hell are you doing in my home state/town😍! I didn't know my state was worth any attention!!!!!!

[@Magnus2027]

everything is based on growth so it is a matter of course that the companies will add the fee to their prices including surcharges! it is always the consumer and the taxpayer who then pay for all the nonsense.

[@vvolfflovv]

Jack Armstrong..."Get that gabbage outa here!"

[@generalchang3053]

My township started charging for recycling. Sorry to say I just incinerate everything in the fire pit now 🤷

[@niteshades_promise]

recycling was invented by plastic companies so people felt good buying single use plastics. over 90% of "recyclables" are not recycled and go from recycling plant to land fill. 🍻

[@petermcgrath5215]

Are imported goods included

[@nhanha7433]

It is easy to clean plastic cup. Then we will have huge save. Each of the plastic cup cost at least 10 cents

[@misfittradesman3007]

...how about non petroleum plastics? The industry acts like this isn't a thing.

[@pigstain7531]

They are also carry alot of problems, you should look it up about each one .. Reusable v.s Single Use and ofcourse several other things to consider

[@jacobsockness571]

If only states like California had smart policies like this. There's way too much waste as it is.

[@petermcgrath5215]

Q.... Will imported goods be equally included in the increased costs to businesses... Eg.. Ur cheap store plastic toys/bits n pieces or TV plastic/foam packaging... etc... (usually made in China) items.. If Imports not included then WTF? Good idea .. Hope they thought it through

[@zerozilch]

When everything is made cheap an disposable it makes triple the waste.

[@nhanha7433]

The reuse the plastic cup for soda.

[@jeffmalm9708]

Not watching it but I'd guess taxpayers.

[@santoshr2984]

Trust me ... here I RESPECT THE CHINESE DECISION NOT TO TAKE GARBAGE

[@davidsflooringco]

No the costs will not be passed on to consumers, companies will not be greedy, but charitable and pay for it out of their own pockets....lololololol

[@pigstain7531]

Reusable, Refillable, Repairable - Zero Waste Economy

[@mr.pradorobledo]

Law&Order.. Bi - Polar | Grizzly.

[@chris432t6]

Junk mail no doubt. Thank you.

[@nightstorm9872]

America sends it to poor countries...

[@navysteve95]

ummmm.... what are all those plastic bottles and containers doing in my grocery store? The consumer demand creates alot of this