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So, echoing my response to the other guy saying this, how well did that work for plastics? Everyone knows paper straws are worse and unnecessary, and it just makes them want to go back to the old way, microplastics be damned. It's easy to say "regulate", but when it's as complex a problem as the energy source for our whole technological civilisation there's not a clear way to actually write such a legislation.
The issue with the carbon tax isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it's unpopular.
Are plastics use really regulated? I don't mean at mcd's, I mean plastics industry wide.
So, like, except for the regulations? That seems like an unfair question.
There's probably ones other than the straw and bag ones we're all familiar with. I don't know how many, or how many you would consider enough, though.
Your complaints are the straws and bags don't do enough. My point is that's NOT strict industry-wide regulation. We agree!
Okay, sure. So my favored policy on that is EPR. You could still get straws made out of uber-indestructible wonder materials, but you'd have to pay for the cost of disposing of it permanently somehow, as well as just the manufacturing cost. As a result, we probably would still see less disposable plastics in stores, because they don't like burning money, but you could still get them for a bit extra if you have a specific need, like a quadriplegic that needs one that can bend.