Lee 🌏
We absolutely know how to fix the waste problem, and in many ways it's actually very easy.
MAKE THE POLLUTERS PAY!
Make the #Coles, #Woolworths #Bunnings #McDonalds etc pay to dispose of the waste they create.
They will argue "it will push prices up" but our Council Taxes can be lowered as the polluters will pay to remove our waste.
It would instantly incentivise them to produce less waste. It would incentivise them to make everything, higher value, recyclable. To reduce the number of different plastics.
We just need some political leaders prepared to do this.
#Auspol #WarOnWaste @craigreucassel
Nov 15, 2023 at 9:52amWeb
Show threadMike Macgirvin 🖥️Nov 15, 2023
This is what I keep telling people. If you manufacture goods, you should be legally obligated to accept your own company's packaging and rubbish and even take back all the goods you produce at the end of their life cycle. If you aren't willing to do that, or don't know what you'll do with the rubbish you create, you've got no business manufacturing goods.
Show threadLee 🌏Nov 15, 2023
@mikedev
Should it be the manufacturer or the retailer?
In the case of #Coles in Australia, they are the ones with all the power. They can get suppliers to make the changes.
But for other products sold, though may other outlets, perhaps that goes back to the manufacturer?
Either way, whoever pays is forced to rethink their approach. All the big companies and retailers would be forced to work together.
Show threadMike Macgirvin 🖥️Nov 15, 2023
I reckon everybody in the supply chain. I take all my unwanted plastic containers back to Woolies (where I got it from) and if they didn't manufacture it, they return it to wherever they got it from. The only flaw in this whole scenario is that ultimately everything is made in China and I don't know how we force them to play. But maybe that's a good thing. If Woolies gets stuck holding the bag, they might decide to find other suppliers that are willing to take their stuff back and figure out how to re-purpose or recycle it.