mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧 on Nostr: #UnpopularOpinion, though I guess some folks will consider it unpopular starting the ...

#UnpopularOpinion, though I guess some folks will consider it unpopular starting the second paragraph:

There should be no direct payments for municipal waste collection. The waste should be collected from everyone, for free, in any amount.

However, we should tax goods with a significant "utilization tax". It should also cover impoted goods. Higher for stuff that's hard to dispose, and of short lifetime. It should cover the ecological cost of disposal, and simultaneously put some brakes on the consumerism and the omnipresent single-use items (I'm thinking of the e-cigarette crap right now, but the problem is much wider).

But well, if people actually took responsibility for the waste they create and how they devastate their own problem, that'd be socialism.

#ecology