EDITORIAL: Flawed environmental bill is bad for business
EDITORIAL: Flawed environmental bill is bad for business | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Leave it to New York state lawmakers to come up with a business-environmental bill that hurts businesses without doing a lot for the environment. The Extended Producer Responsibility Act (A5801/S1185B) attempts to shift the burden for recycling many materials from municipalities, where it’s been a great success, to the businesses that produce of packaging and paper products. Bill sponsors would have you believe that shifting the cost of recycling onto the companies that make the materials is a good thing. ...