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To: Stan J. Czernel who wrote (82874)	9/8/2008 7:49:52 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) of 541701

I think government can have a very productive role in facilitating the transition. The government can also create policies and processes that turn things into a convoluted mess where the purpose can easily be undermined or lost through the actions of creative participants (income tax, for example) or impose an overhead burden that exceeds the intended benefit. User friendliness is a worthwhile value, too. Returning used products to the manufacturer seems incredibly contorted to me. If you want to motivate manufacturers to design for low impact disposal, how about putting a label on the project like the EPA did with EnergyStar? You could rate the disposal impact and charge the buyer for disposal. Then the buyer would choose a product with a low disposal cost, which would motivate manufactures to compete on this factor. It sure beats hauling my old dishwasher to Maytag.

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