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Extended Producer Responsibility:
The Next Phase of the U.S. Recycling Movement
by Neil Seldman, ILSR.
The U.S. recycling movement once again is flexing its muscles,
this time in the direction of Extended Producer Responsibility
(EPR). EPR proponents see discarded products and packages
are an “unfunded mandate.” While some see unfunded mandates
only as federal dictates that force spending at the local
level, EPR advocates see unfunded mandates as corporate dictates
that force local governments and small businesses to spend
$43.5 billion annually for handling the materials that manufacturers
so carelessly let loose upon the land.
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Recycling
Means Big Money in the Big Apple.-
by Neil Seldman and Kelly Lease, © Institute for Local
Self-Reliance,
Washington, DC.
When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposes to dramatically reduce
the City's recycling program, he talks about money. Those
who want to save and expand the program talk about values.
An extensive story in The New York Times (March 12, 2002)
sums up the thinking well in its sub-headline, “Bloomberg
Puts Doing Well Ahead of Doing Good.”
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Recycling and the New York
Times - David Morris "Recycling may be the most
wasteful activity in modern America..." Thus wrote John Tierney,
a staff writer for the New York Times in a recent Sunday magazine
cover story. The article generated more mail than any piece
the magazine has ever published and spawned a slew of Op Ed
pieces by conservatives crowing about how the liberal Times
finally had accepted their view of the world.
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The Five Most Dangerous Myths
About Recycling - Twenty five percent was considered
a maximum level in 1985. Today it should be considered a minimum,
not a maximum. By continuing to build the reuse, recycling,
and composting infrastructure and integrating the best features
from the best programs - local and state - the nation as a
whole can achieve 50% recycling by 2005.
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Who's Behind The Attack on
Recycling? - by Neil N. Seldman, Institute for
Local Self-Reliance
One would think that recycling, like motherhood and apple
pie, would be an activity beyond reproach. After all, an enterprise
that requires less than a minute a day, that makes us feel
good about ourselves, that reduces pollution and saves energy
would seem to have a lot going for it. Yet, in the past 12
months, increasingly vicious attacks on recycling have appeared
in the popular press.
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