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Talk About Tulsa => Other Tulsa Discussion => Topic started by: Kiah on October 24, 2005, 12:14:33 PM

Title: Nothing but trash!
Post by: Kiah on October 24, 2005, 12:14:33 PM
No, I'm not talking about the guest list to a redneck wedding . . . .

Here is an interesting article about competing philosophies of waste management (that's right, I said interesting).

http://www.greenbiz.com/news/columns_third.cfm?NewsID=28621

It posits an interesting dillema:  Does our waste disposal efficiency and cost-effectiveness encourage waste?  If so, should we let producers bear more of the 'downstream' costs?

(Actually, the same question could be asked of just about any public service -- if we get too good at addressing the symptoms, are we just perpetuating the 'disease'?)