And once we pass it - take all of the forms off of India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and also the US's data all over them.

Next - New industry - Extended Producer Collectors (Monetizes the initiative, created me jobs).


I'm with a U.S. Manufacturer in a leadership role and we got slapped by India customs with their E-Waste (electronics) last June as an impediment to bringing our products into their country. However, it was worth it - to be part of a such a positive and future focused thing.

This is easy to accomplish for businesses if we aren't arrogant and have the humility to look to developing economies' plans and implementation. It's also a job creator.

The expense is nominal compared to what manufacturers net for the products sold. They don't need to hire New people. Take a regulatory person, an engineer or two, production lead, finance to determine how much waste is produced per product and complete your application.

India did this in just a few years. They did it with one third the infrastructure, mounds of garbage in the streets and industry (powerful) based on collecting other countries waste and creating those mounds of garbage.

Folks - this is easy

On a related note, it pisses me off when I see people in the neighborhood not recycle. Several of them have young children. Don't you care about the world your kids will inherit?

I have one that seems to never put out the recycling toter each week, but certainly can overfill two large trash containers weekly. He is also the guy that only cuts his backyard 3 times each summer but keeps the front cut to avoid being cited by the city.

There is one in every neighborhood.

Students--once at a university, the other time at a high school--were outraged. They fought to restore them.

Problem was, after they were restored the students were happy at their self-deception. I knew that behind the scenes their carefully sorted, and sometimes carefully hauled (using fossil fuels), recyclables were merged into one bin and taken to be dealt with as a single waste stream.

In other words, it was feel-good wastefulness.

At other times, there was a net benefit in going through the motions because at the end of the day the recyclables were actually recycled.

Unless you know what's going on after "recycling" happens, you don't know. So a city near me has curbside recycling. It's stipulated to have different trucks pick up the materials. But they don't recycle what they pick up--it all goes to landfill, but instead of having one truck make the rounds there are multiple trucks, each consuming whatever energy is needed. Inefficient. That could change in two months and recycling can make sense. Or not.

Manufacturers shouldn’t be able to externalize the cost of dealing with their packaging waste. I read years ago that Germany required mfrs to accept return of their packaging by consumers. We needs all brains on deck to deal with this global issue.