As one of the founding architects of the Hazardous Household Waste Recycling Program adopted by Waterloo Regional District in Ontario, Canada, I found this video particularly distressing.
As a University of Waterloo Environment and Resource Studies undergrad, I came to believe that recycling was probably a net positive benefit all around - the one environmental program that still withstood all tests of legitimacy.
Now Penn & Teller, those libertarian idiots, have to come along and ruin it all.
via videosift.com
Saturday, January 31, 2009
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I wonder how much of that is true, and does it just apply to the US? I like their presentation though.
I hear ya... around here homeless people pick up plastic bottles too because you get $.05 for them. It's an artificial economy in a sense, but it does get the plastic off the street. They are talking about doing the same with plastic bags.
I'm not sure what sort of difference that would make to the economic arguments in this video.
I would guess it means that the person who paid the five cent deposit is paying the homeless person five cents. After that, the economics stay the same - completely non-beneficial.
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