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In article <1j7NN8s5@gap> tylerh@cco.caltech.edu (Tyler R. Holcomb) writes:

>Whatever happened to personal responsibility?  If you choose to buy something,
>why are you free of all moral taint while the manufacturer, which has devoted
>great effort to responding to the public taste, must bear all moral
>responsibilty?  I have always thought that constructive effort was
>more useful for solving a problem than just trying to find someone
>else to blame.

Nothing happened to personal responsibility. Come into my basement sometime
and I'll show you the mother-of-all recycling piles, most of it materials
that are difficult to recycle. (I started this project before I was fully
aware of the non-recyclability of the materials; I've decided to keep
adding to the pile until the manufacturers or my community will take it,
whichever comes first.)

I want to attack this thing on all fronts. One of the biggest challenges
is *reducing* the amount of packaging; there are products that my family
use which are not available in bulk or without excess packaging. As you
suggest, manufacturers have devoted great effort to responding to the
public taste, which unfortunately as of yet does not recognize the idiocy
of excessive packaging.

By asking manufacturers to be responsible for the eventual disposal of what
they build, I am attempting to make my consumer vote carry more weight than
the vote I cast with my shopping cart.
								    MPA