RE: [GreenYes] 'Producer Responsibility' and Consumer Cost

[Heide Feldman <hfeldman@mrwmd.org>]

...but then again we should pay the FULL cost of the products we consume,
including their entire life cycle.  If the products then become too
expensive, we may stop buying them which would send a message to the
producers.  I think many of our products don't reflect the true cost to the
environment.  This is true for food, as well.  Not a popular thought, I'm
sure.

Heidi Feldman
Public Education Coordinator
Monterey Regional Waste Management District
Tel.: 831/384-5313     FAX: 831/384-3567






-----Original Message-----
From: RJayW2@aol.com [mailto:RJayW2@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:10 PM
To: greenyes@grrn.org
Subject: [GreenYes] 'Producer Responsibility' and Consumer Cost


Consumers through fees paid to waste haulers and recyclers or through their 
property taxes for solid waste services are now paying a good share of the 
costs associated with recycling plastics (and everything else).  Lately, the

term 'Producer Responsibility' has crept into our recycling vocabulary and 
I'm interested in seeing what folks on this list think of the concept. 

Here's my two-cents worth just to get things going:  I am more than 80% of 
the opinion that producer responsibility won't work because even if the 
producers are made "responsible" for making sure the products and materials 
they produce are recycled or reused, the costs associated with this will be 
passed on to...you guessed it....the consumers.  We are footing the bill 
already so why bother?

As grandpa used to say, "Am I right or Am I close?"

John Waddell
KJWB Publications Inc.
Refuse News
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