I do wonder if there would be a workable law where companies are permanently responsible for what they produce, they must always accept back and responsibly recycle/break down to resources what they put out there, and do away with the shifting of responsibility of waste to society? Seems like a terrible engineering challenge but the right thing to do.

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hn_acc1 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That would create a lot of work for corporate lawyers to create shell companies, merge/push-responsibility-onto/unmerge transactions, selling of "waste cleanup credits" by companies who then quickly go bankrupt (after the founders take all the $$ out of the company), etc...

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1718627440 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A lot of EU regulation goes into this direction, but we are still far away from having it for every product.

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Pxtl 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Disposal fees were a thing here in Ontario, the idea being that consumers should pay up-front for the cost of disposal, and therefore expensive-to-dispose things (like things containing batteries) should cost more.

We rewarded the government that brought this plan in by replacing them with Doug Ford, the brother of the infamous late Toronto mayor Rob Ford who was a literal crack-smoking drunk.

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ShroudedNight 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I sure as fuck did not vote for Ford, directly or by the local MP proxy. However, I will readily acknowledge that at the time of the election that brought the Progressive Conservative party into power, the Ontario Liberal Party was giving off strong signals that it had essentially given up any attempt at excellence in its execution of public policy, and that it was seemingly bereft of significant insight beyond the then current state of governance.

They were also hindered by the public's perception of their performance in the matters of Ornge and Hydro One.

It seems strange to me to frame the results of that election as being a reward for re-internalizing the waste management costs of consumer products.

	▲	Pxtl 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I realize it's a small part of a whole, but it's kind of hard to ignore the broad rejection of environmentalism that happened across-the-board in English-speaking Canada. Green Energy Act was hated and cancelled, eco-fees were hated and got cancelled, carbon pricing was hated and got cancelled, bike lanes are hated and got cancelled. It seems like voters will reject any attempt to fight climate change if there is cost or inconvenience involved.