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

["Michele Raymond" <michele@raymond.com>]

We dont pay the full cost foe steel, paper, or even agricultural products 
-- even coffee.
Especially oil and gas.

Michele raymond



At 02:14 PM 12/13/01 -0800, Heide Feldman wrote:
>...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.
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>Heidi Feldman
>Public Education Coordinator
>Monterey Regional Waste Management District
>Tel.: 831/384-5313     FAX: 831/384-3567
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>-----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
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>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
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>term 'Producer Responsibility' has crept into our recycling vocabulary and
>I'm interested in seeing what folks on this list think of the concept.
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>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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