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Originally Posted by Fuzz
But that doesn't change the reality that it's an anachronism providing very little if any economic benefit for the cost. When we talk about making Canada more efficient, it's looking at stuff like this and asking, ok, but why? So Woobie Jr can save for a vacation fund? I think we can look at other options there...and this isn't a slight against you using the system as it exists. But it really shouldn't exist anymore.
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The better answer is likely to get rid of municipal recycling. The world has an excess of collected plastic that isn’t recycled. Paper has high rates of contamination when using a mixed system and aluminum the most valuable recycling commodity is well recycled through the deposit system and beer bottles are reused rather than crushed
So let’s put the EPR to general municipal revenues and give back the $25 a year we currently pay and go back to the system where we see the consequence of our garbage rather than pretend recycling works.