The way to get zero waste supply chains and clean up the planet is with a pollution tax.
Not having one is just subsidizing the negative externality, its a continious massive state grant transfer payment to pollution for profit schemes many of which still can't keep afloat without endless austerity inducing bailouts by other names ala the fossil fuel industry because of inherant features tech won't solve but where the 'industries' are optional to begin with.
In the US the norm is 14 trucks of waste per truck of product- or was no long ago. And we have a chemical industry too lazy and entitled to figure out what to do with its reactant wastes (which are much larger than its product stream) so when it couldn't just dump into rivers, lakes and the ocean it started dumping into our food (standardized hidden ingredients) agricultural supplies and toiletries and trying to call that poisoning a move toward zero waste or efficiency. Or tried to backwards indemnify with stuff like metal processing seepage and the flouride policy. Worst of all was it saving reactant waste in vats and off gassing them and evaporating them down until under insane dillution theory these were light enough to crop dust us with- which has apparently been their lazy entitled way of avoiding an actual zero waste supply chain and protecting unjustified rates of profit- they've been writing and cashing checks on the public dime that the social utility of their actual contribution could never cover. That's called theft and pent up illgotten gain to be disgorged which will hapoen politically so there will be no statute of limitations to observe. Same with pharma- we would be much further along and evolved beyond drugs if the universities did the research and handed it to all manufactures instead of exclusively and with long term exclusive patents. So the chemical industry can change under a pollution tax to zero waste or be absorbed as infrastructure and run at cost like the highway system. Have to make sure too the chemical industry can't circle back the tax with more waste.
Not having one is just subsidizing the negative externality, its a continious massive state grant transfer payment to pollution for profit schemes many of which still can't keep afloat without endless austerity inducing bailouts by other names ala the fossil fuel industry because of inherant features tech won't solve but where the 'industries' are optional to begin with.
In the US the norm is 14 trucks of waste per truck of product- or was no long ago. And we have a chemical industry too lazy and entitled to figure out what to do with its reactant wastes (which are much larger than its product stream) so when it couldn't just dump into rivers, lakes and the ocean it started dumping into our food (standardized hidden ingredients) agricultural supplies and toiletries and trying to call that poisoning a move toward zero waste or efficiency. Or tried to backwards indemnify with stuff like metal processing seepage and the flouride policy. Worst of all was it saving reactant waste in vats and off gassing them and evaporating them down until under insane dillution theory these were light enough to crop dust us with- which has apparently been their lazy entitled way of avoiding an actual zero waste supply chain and protecting unjustified rates of profit- they've been writing and cashing checks on the public dime that the social utility of their actual contribution could never cover. That's called theft and pent up illgotten gain to be disgorged which will hapoen politically so there will be no statute of limitations to observe. Same with pharma- we would be much further along and evolved beyond drugs if the universities did the research and handed it to all manufactures instead of exclusively and with long term exclusive patents. So the chemical industry can change under a pollution tax to zero waste or be absorbed as infrastructure and run at cost like the highway system. Have to make sure too the chemical industry can't circle back the tax with more waste.
