The Real Cause of the Global Garbage Crisis Revolves Around Unnecessary Government Regulations – September 1, 2019,

What if I told you that in order to prevent excessive waste, individual citizens would have to pay out of pocket to dispose of their own garbage, what’s the first thing that would come to your mind? Citizens would openly disregard the law, right? Yes, of course, that’s the first thing that would come to mind because the same people humans are often trying to paint as victims are the same people causing the most problem for society.

There’s a demand for the government to handle trash collection and this is the main reason why so much garbage exists. People have been socially conditioned to believe that an external source should solve easy to fix problems. Solving garbage clean up is simple, it’s always been simple, barring recycling things like batteries and other items that can potentially become explosive, garbage clean up, for the most part, isn’t that difficult.

It’s made difficult because as the government gets more involved in the garbage cleanup, the process itself becomes increasingly uneconomical. Humans also have this odd Carbon tax approach to garbage cleanup. People who are Pro-the-environment tend to not want to get involved in the day-to-day operations, they’d instead prefer the idea that the government or some external source deal with the problem, this is, of course, the problem, per capita Canada produces the most garbage in the world, oddly enough Canada also has one of the largest landmasses in the world, so why then does this garbage problem even exist in Canada which has more land and less people than China?

Why would Canada of all places need to export its garbage? The answer lies in the Government’s interference in the Canadian economy. Operating a business in Canada is extremely expensive, and the reality is if Canada, pursues Carbon Pricing more aggressively, energy costs will get even higher, which will make Canada’s recycling efforts even more difficult. Understand that Garbage clean up used to be big business, but guess who made it unprofitable? Yup, you guessed it democracy, via the Government. A book you’ll want to consider reading if you care about the environment is Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter

Now, I’ve said this time and time again that the White Collar elites typically found in the Government or working privileged white-collar jobs that don’t involve a lot of physical labor, as well as the Welfare recipients, have been riding on the backs of the blue-collar classes fr a long time. In the private sector globally, a shift is happening that I hope will continue and that shift revolves around abandoning Labor unions. This is extremely important for Garbage collection because as this shift happens, my hope is that people will start to question price and wage control laws, my hope is also that regressive taxation or point of sale taxes will be a reflection of the past.

There should only be 1 tax in my opinion and that’s a tariff tax. Being that the world is far from reaching this level thinking employees income taxes should be the preferred tax over regressive taxation because regressive taxation does the most harm to the poor. In Canada, most foods aren’t charged regressive taxes at the point of sale because even the Canadian government understands that regressive taxes cause poverty, however, when regressive carbon taxes come in the form of energy costs, these taxes get passed onto consumers. Because food still has to be transported to locations.

These also make it more expensive to clean up garbage, most garbage trucks require the use of energy and if you watch the video with Adam Minter above, you’ll notice the energy required to recycle, being that in a country like Canada, Government involvement has made the costs for real estate and property inflate, it’s not only expensive to purchase commercial property in Canada, it’s equally expensive for the company to power itself. Obviously, with a minimum wage that’s at least $10 per hour in Canada, this compounds the costs, because if minimum wages is $10, chances are you’ll have to pay someone at least $15 to work in a recycling or waste management facility. This, of course, is the main reason why Canada exported so much of its garbage.

I’d also like to remind the reader that whenever you see or hear about tree huggers who claim to love the environment, please ask them why they don’t start their own waste management facilities? Why don’t they collectively learn how to make solar panels and wind farms? These tree huggers love to complain but rarely ever want to do the work necessary to solve the problem. There’s a lot of trash in places like India or Haiti, why don’t these tree huggers lead by example and start to clean up the places? It’s because like most people they’ don’t really care, they just want to add value to their lives by protesting and hopefully making a name for themselves or tell their friends or descendence that they were there when this or that protest happened.

Cleaning up the planet is very easy and doesn’t require the government, the real problem is us, we as a human race, having a deep-rooted desire to externalize problems we’re fully capable of solving ourselves.

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