On: Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair

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> Local authorities should be able to collect up all Mcdonalds packaging and hand it back to them.

Yes, with a bill for the cost of collection and at some point (after repeated failures?), a fine to motivate a course correction.

[marcosdumay → lostlogin]

> after repeated failures?

Failure to do what?

[lostlogin → marcosdumay]

Failure to address the problems they are causing.

Eg near me is a nice park. Every single evening the car park gets a dump of McDonalds and Wendy’s rubbish.

Yes, it’s their customers and not them, but if those companies addressed their waste by creating less, making more efficient packaging or finding other ways to improve the situation, they would make way more difference than any customer could.

[aembleton → lostlogin]

That should include allowing drive thrus to stamp the car number plate onto packaging.

[curryst → aembleton]

I truly do not understand people who whip trash out the window of their car. It's not even convenient to maneuver around in a car to collect trash from in there. And you have nothing to do while you sit at the gas pump, where there are conspicuously placed trash receptacles...

Personally, I think they should drop the fines for littering and change it to being required to clean up litter for some duration, maybe 20 hours.

Go see the fruits of your labor, and what it takes to clean up after you and what we put city workers through to clean up.

[esyir → aembleton]

Feels like we get closer to big brother every day, only this time it's self-monitoring.

[stretchcat → marcosdumay]

Failure to reduce the amount of trash they're handing out to their customers.