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Bill: Waste Removal Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Islamic Nationalist Front
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2142
Description[?]:
| A BILL to leave all waste disposal and recycling to the private sector, acknowledging that businesses will develop the incentive to recycle reusable materials on their own when those materials become scarce enough. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities but enforces mandatory recycling for industry only.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Proposed: There is no national policy regarding recycled garbage.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Waste disposal responsibility.
Old value:: It is the responsibility of local governments to decide on waste disposal regulation.
Current: Private companies are responsible for disposing of their own waste. The government disposes of residential waste.
Proposed: Waste disposal is left entirely to the private sector and is unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:32:34, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Jakanian Liberal Socialists | To | Debating the Waste Removal Act |
| Message | The JLSP leader still really struggles to understand this "everyone will learn their lessons -after- they've screwed themselves" train of thought. Why not just recognise this kind of thing as a major limitation of libertarianism? We'd kind of prefer to skip the whole important-materials-becoming-scarce thing altogether. |
| Date | 13:49:43, November 16, 2005 CET | From |  Islamic Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Waste Removal Act |
| Message | You're missing the point. This is not an after-the-matter situation. As a commodity (let's say timber) becomes more and more scarce (its supply decreases), its price will rise. That means any company that uses timber (let's say a paper mill) will face increasing costs. At a certain point, these costs will exceed the costs of building recycling facilities and integrating recycling material into their production. At that point, it is more profitable for the company to start recycling. In fact, we can observe similar behavior with companies like HP, which produce printer cartridges. The cartridges are expensive to produce, so the company voluntarily offers to take used ones and then recycles them. I'm willing to recognize certain drawbacks to libertarianism -- for example, the difficulties in dealing with air pollution -- but this is certainly not one of them. For an even better explanation, see... http://www.mises.org/story/1911 |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 157 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 93 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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