“The first argument is that there is no cogent argument FOR the new law. “
One could argue there is a cost for the proper disposal of these various packaging products. And that God charged us to take care of the earth.
And that levying what is essentially a tax on the purveyors of it will pay for proper disposal.
OF COURSE that cost is passed on to the ultimate consumer.
The cost in this implementation is actually higher than without it so that doesn’t work.
We can’t take care of the earth if we can’t take care of us. The people that advocate these things seem to have forgotten that throughout most of human history, pestilence and famine are real threats. The industry we use today is the only way we can support large populations. Without that industry, we are back to hunter-gatherer days.
And to top it off, just because landfills are unsightly, we are not destroying the earth. We tend it quite well.
So cost and tending are false arguments and again I say there is no cogent argument for the law.