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Bill: Recycling Refomation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Aldegar Liberty Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2132
Description[?]:
| This Act calls for an end to mandatory recycling and an end to government subsidizing of this activity. The reasons for this are as follows... 1) Landfills are not dangerous, modern landfills represent almost no threat to humans. In fact, many modern landfills are innovative enoguh to use methane gas excretions from landfills to power nearby homes. 2) Recycling hurts the environmental movement. Recycling paper actually decreases the number of trees produced. Trees are now grown to produce pulp for paper, instead of logging current forests, when recycling comes into play, there is less demand for new trees. 3) Recycling is a manufacturing process, consider, curbside recycling requires a second truck to pass through neigborhoods, thus emitting more pollution. Additionally, taking products to be recycled and breaking them down into usable parts and then creating new products from them actually expends more resources than producing new goods. 4) On average, extensive recycling is 35 percent more costly than conventional disposal, and basic curbside recycling is 55 percent more costly than conventional disposal. If there is substansive demand or profit to be made from recycling (in the case of aluminum cans this is the case) then the market will invariably react by recycling. But the government should not prop us this inefficient use of resources, complete deregulation is needed, |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities but enforces mandatory recycling for industry only.
Proposed: There is no national policy regarding recycled garbage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:34:28, October 27, 2005 CET | From | Novy Smer Party | To | Debating the Recycling Refomation Act |
| Message | We have to ask where all the new landfill sites will be located? |
| Date | 19:01:08, October 27, 2005 CET | From | Aldegar Liberty Party | To | Debating the Recycling Refomation Act |
| Message | Where there is available space, currently waste disposal is left to local governments. I would advocate a "trash for cash" program as well, though no policy option exists for it. States/Municipalities with available space may offer landfill space may sell it to other states/municipalities who have money and less space. |
| Date | 20:28:22, October 27, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Recycling Refomation Act |
| Message | His Grace is all in favour of getting rid of all this recycling nonsense. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 125 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 171 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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