Ontario's Recycling Program: Used in the Wrong Way Persuasive Essay by Master Researcher

This paper examines the idea that the cost of a product should reflect all costs, including resources, manufacture and disposal. The paper discusses the Ontario Blue Box program as an example of the issue of disposal costs being mismanaged and explains that the 'reduce, reuse and recycle' approach is the only long-term, environmentally sound approach to the problem of waste. However, the paper discusses how the responsibility of achieving these objectives must be placed mostly on the manufacturers and packagers who produce waste, not the millions of consumers at the end of the line.