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Article #1022Re: Globalisation, electronics waste disposal and the electronics servicing industry.
From: Amy Dorrit
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:40
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:40
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"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:aaa3ia$97k34$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de... > > <berdpee@ami.com.au> wrote in message news:3cc5f9e1.1143185@news.ami.com.au... > > > I have been proposing for years an equipment disposal tax, which > > should be applied to EVERY manufactured item. It works like this: > > The tax is paid by the manufacturer when the item is produced, the > > longer the life of the item the greater is the proportion of the tax > > refunded when the item has to be disposed of. Thus a quality > > product which lasts say 40 years might get a refund of 90% whereas > > a product which lasted 5 years would only get a refund of 5%. > > Usual mindlessly silly, completely unworkable wank. > > > After all why should the taxpayer have to shoulder > > the cost of disposal of manufactured items? > > They would do that when they buy the goods > under your completely hare brained scheme. Go easy on the poor greeny. After all, this idea did originate in New Zealand.
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