[jonstewart]

Laissez faire. They’re making businesses absorb the externalities, as they should.

[TheChaplain]

Don't be surprised if products are sent abroad for destr^Wrecycling.

No I am not joking, some german company hid an airtag in a old computer that went to recycling. It ended up somewhere in Thailand, being not very environmentally friendly taken care of.

[alt227]

Remember when UK council recycling bags were found in rubbish dumps in the Myanmar jungle?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7070709/Plastic-pac...

[8note]

sure, but within an EU context, the company should still get fined as if they destroyed it themselves

[ars]

> They’re making businesses absorb the externalities, as they should.

That just means the business will raise prices.

[schubidubiduba]

I'll happily pay more if that means less trash, less microplastics and less CO2. The current consumerism is not sustainable in the long run.

[corford]

Why is that automatically bad?

[vscode-rest]

That would be a carbon tax. This is plain overregulation.

[philipallstar]

Just businesses being intrinsically incentivised to not produce waste by the loss of profit is already a good motivation.