All Posts Tagged With: "recycling"
Big Brother Is Watching You Recycle
In 2009, after four years of controversial and piecemeal policies intended to enforce recycling, England imposed a complex and compulsory system of garbage-sorting on homeowners. Citing the British model, Cleveland, Ohio, is taking a giant step toward a similar scheme of compulsory recycling. In 2011 some 25,000 households will be required to use recycling bins fitted [...]
24Nov2010 | Wendy McElroy | 28 comments | ContinuedBig Brother Is Watching You Recycle
In 2011 some 25,000 Cleveland households will be required to use recycling bins fitted with radio-frequency identification tags (RFIDs).
13Sep2010 | Wendy McElroy | 12 comments | ContinuedRegulatory Roadblocks to Turning Waste to Wealth
Pierre Desrochers is a professor of geography at the University of Toronto. The small industrial town of Kalundborg, located 75 miles from Copenhagen, shouldn’t be on the radar screen of most visitors to Denmark. It has nonetheless become something of a Mecca for “sustainable development” theorists the world over. Kalundborg’s main attraction, apart from its [...]
1Sep2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Greed Green?
Pierre Desrochers is research director at the Montreal Economic Institute (www.iedm.org). Devising prescriptions for “sustainable development” has made the fortune of a number of academics and consultants and provided a new raison d’être for countless bureaucracies. According to these “sustainability experts,” since the dawn of the industrial age the goals of economic growth and enhanced [...]
1Apr2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 1 comment | ContinuedCapital Letters
The Roll of Toll Roads To the Editor: I liked Scott McPherson’s article ["Private Road to Freedom," April] but was somewhat surprised that he made no mention of the fact that private toll roads were all this country had when roads were first developed. It was only when local governments started to interfere by insisting [...]
1Aug2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedI Recycle!
I spoke recently to a group of college students on the economics of environmental protection. As I spoke of the market’s amazing ability to conserve natural resources, one young man asked me, “Do you recycle?” “No,” I answered. “Well, thanks for the effort,” he replied with bitter sarcasm. Before I could explain my answer, he [...]
1May2002 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 15 comments | Continued-
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