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Posted on 07/12/2026 4:21:28 PM PDT by Libloather
Misery on the menu?
California shoppers could soon be paying even more at the checkout line as a sweeping new state recycling measure threatens to send grocery prices soaring, with dairy manufacturers warning some businesses may be forced to shut down or flee the Golden State.
Senate Bill 54 is now entering its first phase of implementation, with companies expected to receive their first bills as early as next month, reported SFGATE.
The measure aims to reduce landfill waste by making manufacturers financially responsible for the packaging they sell after it is thrown away.
It charges companies impact fees on products they sell while also requiring them to phase out packaging that cannot be adequately reused, recycled or composted.
The dairy industry says it stands to be among the hardest hit because many of its products rely on packaging that does not currently meet the measure’s requirements.
CalRecycle, however, estimates the impact will be far smaller, projecting households will pay between $57 and $190 more annually based on data from the California Department of Finance.
Supporters say those added costs are outweighed by shifting the financial burden of packaging waste from taxpayers to the companies that produce it.
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“making manufacturers financially responsible for the packaging they sell after it is thrown away.”
In what warped concept of law and government is that okay?
California is run by economic criminals.
Hey - They’re gonna need another brand-new, huge, overpaid bureaucracy to test and evaluate all the different packaging produced by the manufacturers.
Just getting started.
I care not.
“”””The measure aims to reduce landfill waste by making manufacturers financially responsible for the packaging they sell after it is thrown away.””””
If something simply exists, then California is determined to TAX it.
The people of California are foolish enough to believe that such a tax on manufacturers is a good idea.
Yup, the people of California will pay more as the manufacturers increase the price of packaged items sold in the state.
Socialism and totalitarianism is so adept at fooling people.
Figures never lie, but liars always figure: Those "saving" will NOT trickle down to the consumer.
Idiocy supreme reigns in CA
The first argument is that there is no cogent argument FOR the new law.
You could also say such recyclable packaging won't hold the product fresh as long as it will decompose, shortening the supply chain. Instead of an expiration date, your milk will come with a "leak by" date.
My heart goes out to conservatives living in that wretched state. There are a lot of them as theFR donations indicate.
Not everyone is in a position to move out.
Post consumer recycle of most packaging is impossible. Aluminum cans and cardboard boxes are about it and the cost to do so is rediculously expensive in collection, transportation and conversion. The incremental cost of unrecycled packaging in a landfill is miniscule. Landfills are big plastic lined and capped bags of junk that’ll be there forever. So what? We have enough suitable landfill space for all our waste for a thousand years.
So we are turning something that doesn’t cost anything into another tax stream for the government to spend.
Uh Oh!
Beans?
Danger Danger Will Robinson!
There will be an added flatulence tax due to...........yes.............you guessed it............. Globull Climate Crisis!
I have owned several businesses. I can guarantee 100% I only got my money from one place. My business may have collected taxes, my companies also remitted taxes collected from customers and employees. Every last cent that my company pad came from the one place that I got all my money from…my customers.
Customers and employees pay taxes. That includes the sales tax on imports.
“The measure aims to reduce landfill waste by making manufacturers financially responsible for the packaging they sell after it is thrown away.”
No, it’s the consumers who are going to be financially responsible. The manufacturers will simply pass the cost to them.
“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.
Yeah. I am in Canada where we have a supermajority of idiocy which gets worse every week.
Family obligations prevent me from moving, even though my brother and I qualify for US citizenship based on grandparents.
We own a farm in Alberta and may move there eventually if they Separate. But my mother will never leave the West coast so we won’t leave while she is alive.
Observation about both CA and Canada: “Once they get what they voted for they will change...” No...
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.
Everything they touch turns to Dormbamastuff.
The left - when failure is the only option.
The left - they never learn, because they cannot.
FIRST of all - I LOVE the things that you post. Ping me for the h#ll of it every day, would ya? Could ya? ;)
Secondly - is California messing with the Chocolate Rations, yet? When and if they do, people MIGHT finally wake up to the EVIL that is their State Government! (’1984’)
I lived in that gawd-awful state when water rationing and a WHOLE lot of other things were already accepted without question. Without. Question! Ugh!
They(California voters) voted for this by voting in “woke” legislators who can’t help themselves by coming up with this B.S. They have NO ONE to blame but themselves.
Just when you think they’re running out of stupid ideas
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