tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199688615755455510.post4040611325920314993..comments2024-03-12T22:23:07.693-07:00Comments on Product Policy Institute Blog: Public or Private? Who Should be Responsible for Our Unwanted Stuff?Product Policy Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197161094867478597noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199688615755455510.post-26404934148119209132013-05-21T11:28:56.334-07:002013-05-21T11:28:56.334-07:00I think by now everyone understands the broad conc...I think by now everyone understands the broad concepts. We don't need to rehash that anymore.<br /><br />The controversy can be focused on whether and how much better (or worse) EPR can improve source reduction, reuse, design for recyclability, capture rates and residues among the materials widely included in government sponsored curbside programs, and how much can be<br />accomplished among those materials not now included curbside. <br /><br />For the contrary contention is that national brand companies may have little inherent substantive concern for sustainability issues, and also less economic incentive to do so when the political rubber hits the road on how well their performance is actually measured and the amount of the fees that will be imposed for wasting, along with a bias against local and in favor of national recovery business, whose commitment is not always the deepest. In<br />the end, this concern holds, too much recoverable material will be jammed into shipping containers back hauled to China, or worse, burned, and too many local recovery businesses in the US will be destroyed. <br /><br />Neither side to the debate will yield to the other when the dispute is addressed at the theoretical level.<br /><br />Fortunately, there is a real world test of EPR ongoing now in British Columbia that will soon provide us with a fact-based rather than a<br />belief-based basis to evaluate the issues in controversy.<br /><br />If those opposed to EPR agree, will PPI also agree to reach a conclusion together among the recycling community, in which we all share a common vision of zero waste, based upon the facts on how well BC achieves those objectives relative to government run programs? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15889155865054823216noreply@blogger.com