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Munchies_Matt wrote: We need to put a tax on electronic goods so they can be recycled properly.
Yeah, that's it. Everything is going to be pink and fluffy.
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There already is in Italy.
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* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I'd suggest concentrating on the middlemen whose forged documentation lets them pose as responsible recyclers to buy ewaste from places where there is a mandate to safely dispose of it and who then smuggle it to the 3rd world to create an environmental catastrophe. Increasing the number of places with requirements to safely dispose of it won't do any good when its impossible for the companies collecting it from consumers to be sure that the people they sell it to aren't crooks.
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Yeah, you are right, this needs to be tackled too.
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You can't legislate morality no matter what the tax.
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We already pay taxes for that in the Netherlands, and it does not change anything. Waste is going to the cheapest place that claims to recycle it, and there is money to be made with dumping.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: We need to put a tax on electronic goods so they can be recycled properly.
Like how Apple add a stupidity tax?
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<og_accent>There is no dark side of the industry really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
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Surprised nobody commented on this slightly mangled quotation from "Dark side of the moon", originally said in a Welsh accent. 
Oh well, no accounting for some folks tastes. Or maybe they just never heard it. 
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Most developed countries have a "green tax" on electronic devices.
What we need now if to have companies that makes electronics have a clear and demonstrible plan to recycle their products.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Wish I could find the article I read a few years back but even electronic recycling programs are not always what they seem.
Long story short, company charges you to take your e-waste, tells you it will be recycled responsibly, loads them into shipping containers, dumps them in poor areas and then buy the scavenged raw materials for cheap. In the end they make profit on both sides of the process with no real 'recycling' going on at all.
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RJOberg wrote: dumps them in poor areas and then buy the scavenged raw materials for cheap.
It is recycling. They leave waste in a plant with organisms that live separating the raw materials, obtaining the materials back.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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reminds me of another joke, "carbon tax"
(joke was so damn easy to get "carbon tax credits" the coal power stations wouldn't actually pay tax for next 20 years - which they could also mitigate [in advance] by throwing up a windmill or two, or even promising to maintain their distribution system to reduce loss due to old wiring etc.)
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the any key okay
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Munchies_Matt wrote: We need to put a tax on electronic goods so they can be recycled properly.
We already have these in Ontario, thank you very much. Well, the tax part at least. Whether anything actually gets recycled at all or not is a question best left to our prime minister.
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Because for them it is a Wurst-Kase scenario...
I'll get me coat.
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It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times.
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1) So that's what a disruption in the force feels like...
2) I know that you should know better than to pronounce it so badly.
3) Käse, not Kase. Hände hoch, not Hande hoch.
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I don't recognise umlauts! 
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What! that's even more racist than the first post.
Becomming a Chinese famboi or perhaps time to lay off eating the cheap fake rice?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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OriginalGriff wrote: I don't recognise umlauts! 
You are a master of the obvious 
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I knew I was a master of something!
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Nope, all I get is "The Internet is a great place and free thanks the Ads Please disable ADBLOCK"
And when I get that kind of pleading, it's normally because the ads are inappropriate, overused, or unpleasant; or the content is rubbish. And no, I don't disable uBlock to find out ... sites like this one earn the right to be in a White List - my default position is "earn it, don't expect it".
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