Comments on: The Real Recycling Myth http://ideonexus.com/2008/02/15/the-real-recycling-myth/ Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ideonexus http://ideonexus.com/2008/02/15/the-real-recycling-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-958 ideonexus Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:15:30 +0000 http://ideonexus.com/2008/02/15/the-real-recycling-myth/#comment-958 I think the main problem I have with your reasoning is that, without making trash-collection and recycling mandatory, it's much cheaper for people just to dump everything in their back yards. People who turn their yards into their own personal dumps impinge on the rights of their neighbors to live in a sanitary community in good health without rats and the bubonic plague. I highly doubt you're suggesting we make trash disposal voluntary. It has to be mandatory. If it's going to be mandatory, then giving mandatory trash disposal over to private enterprise means those businesses will benefit from an artificially high market value for their services, because anyone who doesn't pay them goes to jail (Unless your suggesting businesses won't take advantage of the situation and give their coerced customers the fair market value.). If trash collection is mandatory, and cannot be privatized because of this, then recycling must also be mandatory because it keeps the taxpayer-funded waste-management service cheaper for everyone. If your system is more expensive and inconvenient than our American system, then you need to take it up with your local government. Making garbage disposal voluntary is unfeasible, and privatizing a consumer product the government mandates the use of is unjust. I think the main problem I have with your reasoning is that, without making trash-collection and recycling mandatory, it’s much cheaper for people just to dump everything in their back yards. People who turn their yards into their own personal dumps impinge on the rights of their neighbors to live in a sanitary community in good health without rats and the bubonic plague.

I highly doubt you’re suggesting we make trash disposal voluntary. It has to be mandatory. If it’s going to be mandatory, then giving mandatory trash disposal over to private enterprise means those businesses will benefit from an artificially high market value for their services, because anyone who doesn’t pay them goes to jail (Unless your suggesting businesses won’t take advantage of the situation and give their coerced customers the fair market value.).

If trash collection is mandatory, and cannot be privatized because of this, then recycling must also be mandatory because it keeps the taxpayer-funded waste-management service cheaper for everyone. If your system is more expensive and inconvenient than our American system, then you need to take it up with your local government.

Making garbage disposal voluntary is unfeasible, and privatizing a consumer product the government mandates the use of is unjust.

]]> By: Colliding Softly » Blog Archive » More on the Recycling Myth http://ideonexus.com/2008/02/15/the-real-recycling-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-957 Colliding Softly » Blog Archive » More on the Recycling Myth Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:23:34 +0000 http://ideonexus.com/2008/02/15/the-real-recycling-myth/#comment-957 [...] in different forms in a number of places. I’ll quote one of the more clearly articulated commenters: The Swedish recycling policies, as Bylund describes them, place responsibility on the individual [...] [...] in different forms in a number of places. I’ll quote one of the more clearly articulated commenters: The Swedish recycling policies, as Bylund describes them, place responsibility on the individual [...]

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