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Article #894Re: Oregon's New Bottle & E Waste Laws
From: Don Homuth
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:46
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:46
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:09:39 -0700, lein <boomer_the_cat@my-deja.com> wrote: >On Jun 8, 6:54 am, pjb...@webtv.net (Paul J. Berg) wrote: >> ` >> January 1, 2009 will be a big day for Oregonians who care about >> recycling. That's the day that consumers will be required to plunk down >> a nickel deposit on every bottle of water they buy. It's also the day >> that Oregon will officially have a statewide system for free and >> convenient recycling of old televisions and computers. > >So how is recycling of old televisions and computers free? It's not -- there will be a cost. But unfortunately the term "free" is too often conflated with the phrase "at no charge." The better question is who should pay it? My take is that the purchase should pay the Entire cost of the product, right through to the disposal stage. That way everyone would Know what the True Cost of what they buy is, and that would constitute a pretty good incentive for manufacturers to design so as to minimize disposal costs as well as performance. TANSTAAFAL, as they saying used to go. It's still true.
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