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Originally Posted by fotze
I have always been interested if garbage men/trucks were able to weigh your garbage and charge a price per tonne. How that would affect the decrease in the amount of garbage to the landfill. If people got charged for what garbage they generated it would be more fair and reduce it. People only react according to their wallet.
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I think that could be part of a larger dissertation in some economics field examining incentives, costs and benefits of encouraging people to go green. I can imagine Levitt and Dubner covering this in Freakonomics 2. Actually, that's a topic that I would be interested to read about.
