How the Price of Oil Impacts Recycling
If there is one thing that greases the engine of society, it’s oil. The flow of cheap oil has had perhaps more impact on the creation of what many critics have termed North America’s “throwaway” society. When the price of oil goes up, so does transportation and just about everything else. The [...]
Recycling Rates
The use of taxation to influence behavior in the “free marketplace” has a very long track record. They are sort of like using economic sanctions at the international level to force the compliance of “rogue” nations. When a consumer wantonly tosses water bottles, aluminum cans and paper into the regular waste stream, they [...]
Supporting Recycling With Your Purchases
Since recycling is a market-based solution to a public problem, improvements to it are similarly market-based whenever possible. That’s why recycling programs are most likely to be profitable and have the capital to improve when demand for recycled products is high.
This can be legislated to a certain extent. For instance, there are many [...]
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