Thanks for your two messages on defining point #3,
MAKE WASTING PAY
OR
MAKE WASTE PAY
OR
DON'T SUBSIDIZE WASTE
OR
WASTE MORE, PAY MORE
(just working on the catch line)
Anyway, I like the theme. Strategically, I agree that the grassroots
facility fighters are a potent force that have not connected with recycling
advocates on the state and national level very often. In my report to
Environmental Action more than a year ago, you will note that I suggested
connecting with these folks in pushing a sustainable materials agenda. They
are hungry to be able to promote a no-landfill, no-burner alternative at the
local level. The challenge is to offer them a truly workable solution
available commercially now - perhaps that is the Total Recycling Facility
idea, but with the present economics there will still be some nonrecyclable
components that would have to be transferred to a landfill.
The policy message of Making Wasting Pay addresses changes those economics
so that total recycling, zero waste becomes even more economically and
technically feasible. I like the four horsemen of subsidies for waste that
you have elucidated that we need to attack. I still maintain that each of
these horseman have formidable lobbying and political action budgets that
will stymie and even reverse any legislative initiatives we promote to end
the subsidies until we get comprehensive campaign finance and political
reform. However, I agree that the TOTAL RECYCLING/JOBS/MAKE WASTE PAY
message is the more direct agenda for recycling advocates and grassroots
facility fighters and that CFR is a strategy, albeit central one in my
opinion, for making that agenda a legislative and market reality.
Good brainstorming work!!!
Dave Kirkpatrick
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