Recycling gets a bad rap because it's generally poorly run. On the local news, there was one campaigner who claimed that a 3p tax on each plastic bottle was all that was needed to recycle plastic bottles in local industrial units. It would probably be cheaper for the smaller bottles.
I've been following Michael Shellenberger on the progre…
Recycling gets a bad rap because it's generally poorly run. On the local news, there was one campaigner who claimed that a 3p tax on each plastic bottle was all that was needed to recycle plastic bottles in local industrial units. It would probably be cheaper for the smaller bottles.
I've been following Michael Shellenberger on the progressive homelessness disease. For a start, the system the progressives are using in no way resembles the Portuguese system. The Dutch actually give people who use drugs on the streets a choice between treatment and prison, and also utilise 'intervention' techniques.
Most people wouldn't be in favour of this, but most people with experience in the field would know from the literature and practical examples, like Sweden or Switzerland that it could work. Offer a third option. A voluntary workhouse system paired with legally authorised and supervised drug use. In the Swedish heroin program 70% of users held down a job of some description. Pairing this type of system to a centralised location like a recycling plant, allows for cheap prefab housing, food provision and a legal safer outlet for drug use. I only argue it because the success rate on treatment/rehab is pretty abysmal. It doesn't tackle the underlying problem of people wanting to check out of their own lives.
A voluntary workhouse system would give people a routine, stability, a sense of satisfaction from work, would be relatively cost neutral and have the benefit of stealing a huge amount of money from the gangs and cartels, potentially forcing them to somewhat raise the price of their products. Itinerant frequent users are a huge market for cartels- removing this market fucks with their business model. The Swedish system didn't force treatment on people, but all of the sites had a room set aside for the users to speak with a professional, if they wanted to get clean.
Recycling gets a bad rap because it's generally poorly run. On the local news, there was one campaigner who claimed that a 3p tax on each plastic bottle was all that was needed to recycle plastic bottles in local industrial units. It would probably be cheaper for the smaller bottles.
I've been following Michael Shellenberger on the progressive homelessness disease. For a start, the system the progressives are using in no way resembles the Portuguese system. The Dutch actually give people who use drugs on the streets a choice between treatment and prison, and also utilise 'intervention' techniques.
Most people wouldn't be in favour of this, but most people with experience in the field would know from the literature and practical examples, like Sweden or Switzerland that it could work. Offer a third option. A voluntary workhouse system paired with legally authorised and supervised drug use. In the Swedish heroin program 70% of users held down a job of some description. Pairing this type of system to a centralised location like a recycling plant, allows for cheap prefab housing, food provision and a legal safer outlet for drug use. I only argue it because the success rate on treatment/rehab is pretty abysmal. It doesn't tackle the underlying problem of people wanting to check out of their own lives.
A voluntary workhouse system would give people a routine, stability, a sense of satisfaction from work, would be relatively cost neutral and have the benefit of stealing a huge amount of money from the gangs and cartels, potentially forcing them to somewhat raise the price of their products. Itinerant frequent users are a huge market for cartels- removing this market fucks with their business model. The Swedish system didn't force treatment on people, but all of the sites had a room set aside for the users to speak with a professional, if they wanted to get clean.