Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff
This idea seems so sensible it&#x27;s a no-brainer. (I&#x27;m almost dreading the comments explaining why I&#x27;m wrong!) The human race is producing unprecedented quantities of non-recyclable &quot;stuff&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s pumped out of the ground as oil, converted into plastics, and after a short life, buried in the ground again. Maybe this wouldn&#x27;t be so bad if much of it didn&#x27;t also end up floating in the ocean, being eaten by animals and contaminating the human food chain.<p>The only potential counter-argument I can see with this sort of policy is that the goals of minimising CO2 and minimising waste sometimes seem to be in competition with each other. Anecdotally I&#x27;ve heard of examples where (e.g.) washing china plates has a greater carbon cost than using disposable ones.