• MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    You’ve never had to repeatedly clean trash slurry off of a concrete slab because junkies are terrible people who have no manners. If people could be trusted to not redistribute the trash across the land I wouldn’t mind so much

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        26 days ago

        Enforcing that would take a lot more money than a padlock.

        A better idea would be to charge businesses for the downstream costs of externalities like waste. Make them self-enforce by making it more expensive to dump recyclable or reusable materials.

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      26 days ago

      If capitalism could be trusted not to put valuable items in the trash, it wouldn’t be a problem.