One word..."Taxes!"
Posted on 09/26/2021 11:25:29 PM PDT by blueplum
.....The Senate Finance Committee is weighing the idea of a tax on the sale of virgin plastic resin — the base materials used to make single-use plastics — as one potential way to pay for the mammoth spending bill, according to a document released earlier this month.
But the proposal has garnered fierce opposition from the plastics division of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), a trade group representing 28 companies including oil giants such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell as well as major chemical manufacturers such as DuPont and Dow Chemical....
...“Plastic goes into a variety of applications, not just food packaging,” Joshua Baca, vice president of the ACC's plastics division, told The Hill. “At the end of the day, this would result in a regressive tax that would largely impact those who can least afford it.”
Baca argued that implementation of the measure would lead to "incentivizing the use of other materials — whether that's paper, glass, aluminum — all of which have a higher [carbon] footprint than plastics."...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If you like your Tide detergent you can keep your Tide detergent. Just gotta pay more. And don’t eat the pods.
Paper goods are generally not reusable. Corrugate can be re-used a few times or for storage but is expensive relatively speaking. Glass, less re-usable and more prone to breakage. Plastics can be used many times and are made from a by-product of oil processing. They can definitely be recycled or reused.
This idea would essentially make the world less efficient. Which seems to be what politicians want.
What a bunch of maroons.
Another reason for a toilet paper shortage!
And disposable diapers!
Elaine Robinson's father was correct when he told Dustin Hoffman that "the future was in Plastics, my boy".
“Catalyst for the poly vinyl used in, Wait for it.......Toilet Paper!”
I think they use vinyl toilet paper in Europe. I don’t know if they reuse it./sarc
So this adhesive lasts about .030 seconds, but it's a very critical .030 seconds.
Then we also have permanent wet strength resins which are used in paper towels and facial tissue. That's why paper towels don't fall apart when wet and facial tissues don't come apart when you blow snot into them. Wet strength resins are also used in food wrap paper and plasticized barrier sheet laminations to prevent grease from leaking thru your hamburger wrap.
Important tip: Never flush facial tissues down the toilet. Of course paper towels either. They will not debond and disperse for years. They will pile up in your sewer pipes.
This is how “progressives” roll.
They create new regulations and taxes which cause disruptions to the economy.
The tax on plastics is big and obvious—but there are many thousands of “little” taxes and regulations, below the radar, they make everything more expensive, create shortages, and throw sand in the gears of the economy.
Paper goods are generally not reusable.
*** But they bio-degrade and participate in the cycle of nature
Corrugate can be re-used a few times or for storage but is expensive relatively speaking.
*** I’m still string stuff in 20-year-old cardboard boxes. It also bio-degrades.
Glass, less re-usable and more prone to breakage.
*** A glass container can be re-used essentially forever. And glass is nothing more than sand with borax added. Glass is no more a pollutant than a rock.
Plastics can be used many times and are made from a by-product of oil processing. They can definitely be recycled or reused.
*** But they aren’t. Rather, most of plastics are hopelessly mixed with other junk in our garbage.
This idea would essentially make the world less efficient.
*** Today’s efficiency is making humans more lazy. The efficiency of our economy is not really a problem.
Most medical devices have plastic as a part of or totally made from.
One word..."Taxes!"
“Most medical devices have plastic as a part of or totally made from.”
Plastic is great stuff, no question. Beautiful, functional, cheap things. I’m not real pleased at all of the throw-away plastic medical stuff. For instance, pill bottles.
Good luck with your GLASS toothbrush......
Largest portion of LANDFILL-—and NO ONE says a peep.
TRY walking thru every room in YOUR house & garage & making a list with a clipboard of EVERY item that has plastic...
You will be shocked.
I am one of those evil hoarders—I would need a lot of clipboards...
;-)
It would be easier to list the ones that don't.
Democratic tax plan
Tax people with gold fillings and remove after death.
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