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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I wouldn't mind an extra charge for using plastic bags, so long as the market made the move and not the result of a political agenda.
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But there is a lot of money in politics because the companies who make plastic and make plastic bags spend it making sure the people you voted in to office are happy and have a nice time at their fund raiser.
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While subjective, I would disagree that landfills are expensive. Digging a pit and tossing stuff in it really isn't very expensive. The largest part of your garbage collection fee surely goes towards the trucks, fuel, and manpower to pick it up at your curb every week. Tossing it in the pit was the cheap part.
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We don't pay for curb side pickup, curb side pickup is an extra cost that would go to a privet company, we only pay for the land fill, digging the hole, lining it with clay, a layer of plastic, drain tile that goes to a holding tank, gravel, then trash, then after it's full it gets another layer of plastic and more clay with a waste water treatment truck that empties out the holding tank every time it's full (after a rain storm or the plastic diaper in there burst) because to many cities have been sued after their landfills leaked nasty stuff in to the ground water and made people sick, but the digging of the hole is cheap, so is the grass seed that goes on top, all the stuff that goes on in between has a cost.