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   Dan Drake 🦆 (ddrake@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 06:44:17 JST Dan Drake 🦆

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   @inthehands this seems pretty obvious, and effective, right?

   We have carbon tax for CO2 emissions; all sorts of sin taxes on tobacco and alcohol; related taxes on sugary drinks in some places -- and, very closely related to plastic in general, there's research showing that taxes on plastic bags are very effective: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp9274

   This seems like a bog-standard case of increasing the market price to reflect economic externalities...