Re: Refillable Bottles & home collection  Steve Schell ( Mon, 24
May 1999 22:01:57 -0400  At 06:25 PM 5/24/99 -0400, Carol
Slechta wrote: >Again, charging wasteful consumers prevents the
"zero waste" people >from subsidizing the wasteful ones. It is a
bit of a regressive tax >since it hits poor people more heavily
but there is no inherent >reason that poor people should
generate more waste, so I think >that can be overlooked.  Steve
says:  There may well be some reasons why poor people generate
more waste, among  1. poor people generally do not have built-in
garbage disposers, hence a significantly larger portion of their
waste is food waste.  2. poor people generally cannot afford to
"shop smart," i.e. buy products that use little or no packaging.
When you are shopping on a budget you buy the most inexpensive
things you can and those products tend to be the ones with the
most disposable packaging. additionally, many products you buy
inexpensively now, will not last as long as those that may cost
more money a