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Australian governments impose recycling rules after the packaging industry fails on waste

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    Gopher
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    If this helps im for it, hopefully costs dont get pushed onto the consumer, and I think canada should follow suit if this works out in Australia

    If this helps im for it, hopefully costs dont get pushed onto the consumer, and I think canada should follow suit if this works out in Australia

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      Algernon_Asimov
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      Of course the costs will get pushed on to the consumer. There's no way the manufacturers and retailers will wear the costs of creating recyclable packaging, and collecting that packaging for...

      Of course the costs will get pushed on to the consumer. There's no way the manufacturers and retailers will wear the costs of creating recyclable packaging, and collecting that packaging for recycling.

      1. Gopher
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        Maybe they can make it a deposit situation, like the beer store in ontario, where you pay an extra $0.05 per container, but you get it back when you return the packaging, that also has the added...

        Maybe they can make it a deposit situation, like the beer store in ontario, where you pay an extra $0.05 per container, but you get it back when you return the packaging, that also has the added benefit people will pick up containers people litter, when I'm metal detecting and I have my finds pouch on I pick up beer cans and throw them in my pouch, its a free $0.05, I dont even return them my self cause I dont drink, I throw them in my moms empty pile so she gets the extra 5 cents