Never too late or too soon to go out and improve aspects of your community.
Simple items like picking up a few peices of litter on your streets, in your local parks, or on any nearby trails. Every little bit helps, and the more local residents in the area do the same thing, the more beautiful and inviting your city becomes.
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These are difficult times
Didn't I pay for the OS?
Producers and retailers should be held responsible for taking back all packagings and products that reach their end of life. This should then be recycled by the manufacturer and producers.
We should really take more issue with manufactures charging us for products, and the then us also having to pay in our taxes for the disposal of those products when they reach end of life.
I want to be able to return the plastics and packagings back to the store once I don't need them anymore, same as I want to be able to bring my TV and appliances back to the same store and get a small credit back for the materials of those items.
I don't want manufactures taking advantage of the garbage collection services that I pay for in my taxes. Or at the very least I want them to pay the full cost of those services in terms of social and environmental costs.
It almost plays out like a movie, I was thinking Italian job.
Tbh though I hope these guys get tracked down especially for using the gold/money to buy and bring guns over the boarder.
You and me both, hopefully its not just being shipped to india.
I guess if every Canadian started calling every staples store in Canada asking about this, it would be a great way for this program to get implemented right away. No reason we can't have this here aside from perception. (If it does not exist like you say)
Its a good point, reuse is always better then recycling. But if we can reduce the amont of trash being sent to landfills that would have not been reused and help recycle it, this would be a win IMO.
Most glass bottles for example can be reused, but get a dollar to promote it being recyclable is better then not getting anything and sending it to the landfill.
10 dollars for a old phone in your pocket is better then you paying out of your pocket in taxes for local garbage and litter collection.
I think also worth noting is the 10$ for the phone is the "material cost", the cost of the gold, silver, copper. Its not the "intrinsic value" of the phone, as the phone is not being resold, but in a ideal world being torn apart to build a new one.
Unfortunately this could be the case and the cynic in me feels this could be a green washing scheme like you said.
But hopefully with what some cities are doing now with charging the full economic and social cost of blue & black bin programs to companies and manufactures this could start having a real good impact.
Specially since most manufactures shift the cost of recycling and trash to communities and tax payers. Instead this cost should be internalised by the manufacturer and retailer.
Hopefully this kind of shift promotes better sustainable packaging, and prevents things like planed obsolescence and fast fashion.
Speaking of trucks, speed limiters should be mandatory on all trucks of a certain size and larger. Max speed should be 80-85 kph.
No reason a 53 footer should be traveling down a inner city highway at 120-140/kph trying to pass cars or other trucks.