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dash2 | on: EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
A tax would also promote recycling, since that would avoid the tax?
cromka | parent
How's that different to current asking for recycling and fining on incompliance?
dash2 | root | parent
The difference is that a tax can be per-item, and doesn't need as much regulatory and legal machinery.