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.
Landfills are now funded by the local and regional refuse collection...our garbage bill. While often private, that’s their source of revenue.
Somehow these do-gooders think that moving the revenue collection from the consumers left pocket (garbage bill), to their right (higher production cost), somehow makes a positive change.
Maybe...if you want to stick it to the man lol