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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
This is crazy. Other than newspapers & mags, what goes into your recycling bags? It's packaging! Who are the worse culprits for unneccessary packaging? The supermarkets! So now the ratepayers of Hyndburn are going to financially reward the likes of ASDA & Tesco in order that arbitary targets can be met by the local binmen, while in the process even more rubbish is supplied from the same culprits.
This is the economics of the madhouse.
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Agreed ... not much has changed since Vance Packard wrote The Waste Makers in 1960. Now our supermarkets are charging 15 cents for plastic bags
And if you look on their shelves you will see that the real waste makers are the supermarkets and the food packaging companies, much of the stuff they sell is packaged in, guess what, plastic
.... PCism again ... load the burden of recycling onto the consumer
Make the consumer feel responsible. This idea sounds cute; but the effect will be to increase the profits of private sector marketing giants. Like they need the money, eh.