California on verge of banning plastic bags

Platapus · 06-04-10, 04:37 PM

Instead of banning them, would it not be a better long term strategy to encourage the reuse/recycling of plastic products?

Make it easy for people to recycle and they are more likely to do it

Give them some concrete, immediate benefit and they are more likely to do it.

I understand that probably the vast majority of the citizens simply don't care about recycling and if this is true, I can understand why banning them might seem the right solution.

I wonder how much it would cost to give the citizens $0.01 per bag recycled?

Would that be enough of an incentive to encourage someone who would normally not recycle to consider it?

Dunno

06-04-10, 04:37 PM	#8
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,395 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Instead of banning them, would it not be a better long term strategy to encourage the reuse/recycling of plastic products? Make it easy for people to recycle and they are more likely to do it Give them some concrete, immediate benefit and they are more likely to do it. I understand that probably the vast majority of the citizens simply don't care about recycling and if this is true, I can understand why banning them might seem the right solution. I wonder how much it would cost to give the citizens $0.01 per bag recycled? Would that be enough of an incentive to encourage someone who would normally not recycle to consider it? Dunno __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.