Regulations Instead of talk
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Most individuals like to complain about where their money goes when it comes to government. One area of complaining is about the disposal of trash. It is a cost to government that continues to grow and yet very few want to pay more for government services.
Individuals and companies are the consuming the products and creating the waste. Just because it is out of sight does not rid anyone of their responsibility for appropriately paying for their waste disposal.
The effective way to best way to clean up the mess and to adequately fund waste disposal is to have regulations that require the creators of the product build into the price the cost of waste disposal. The harder it is to recycle the product the higher the price. No product should be exempt.This will provide a market incentive to produce products that can more readily recycled and at cheaper costs. It will discourage the production of high environmental toxins because their price to compete will be higher.
This will create new jobs in local manufacturing to create more environmental friendly and easy to recycled products for the next century. This will create incentives for new entrepreneur businesses to form to meet this need.
Like for-profit entrepreneurs it is an opportunity for new nonprofits to evolve to address similar concerns. For the current nonprofit community it is an opportunity to revolve as well to embrace ways to deliver their products and services.
