Proposal for Incentive Recycling
The United Nations
Description: (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses), Optional Recycling, by means of an incentive system.
Argument: UNDERSTANDS the need for recycling
DISSAPOINTED by current recycling standards
REQUESTS members of the United Nations to see that forcing recycling with threats of punishments such as fines. People should be encouraged to recycle with an incentive system, possible rewards could be tax breaks, or coupons for local buisnesses.
URGES member nations to see that fear leads to hate, but choice leads to, willing acceptance.
1. DISCOURAGES punishment based recycling
2. ENCOURAGES incentive based recycling
511 LaFarge
11-01-2006, 04:58
That's a good bill, it doesn't infringe on sovereignty because it forces nothing. Hooray!
Greenpolitik
11-01-2006, 08:12
We support an international recycling regime, but fear that this proposal requires alteration.
Initially, the grammatical structure of the 'REQUESTS' clause is poor at best. More importantly though the proposal is far too vague to be at all effective. Clearly the goal is to establish a system of incentives to encourage recycling, the obvious question that needs to be addressed is "what sort of system?". We feel that the proposal must set clear guidelines for the incentive system so as to avoid mishandling and abuse. A specific point of clarification would be whether the bill mandates that nations provide incentives to private citizens, whether the bill attempts to use UN resources to directly provide incentives to private citizens or whether the bill provides incentives to nations to boost their recycling programs. Once this issue is made clear, there are furhter clarifications that must be made but it is impossible to formulate coherent questions without that fundamental initial clarity.
The Governing leaders of the Protectorate of Japuli regret to inform you that we do not completely grasp all formal and gramatical guidlines required to develop a proposal. Could you please direct us to an area where we can learn the specifics of how to properly develop a proposal.
Gratefully yours,
Japuli
Gruenberg
11-01-2006, 09:20
(This: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8681196&postcount=3 though long, is helpful.)
Fonzoland
11-01-2006, 10:10
Right. Our corporate tax will be 120%, with a tax break of 100% if you recycle. Great incentive, no?
I agree with incentives rather than total bans. But fines are just another incentive scheme, and economically undistinguishable from tax breaks.
Compadria
11-01-2006, 10:28
The United Nations
Description: (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses), Optional Recycling, by means of an incentive system.
Argument: UNDERSTANDS the need for recycling
DISSAPOINTED by current recycling standards
REQUESTS members of the United Nations to see that forcing recycling with threats of punishments such as fines. People should be encouraged to recycle with an incentive system, possible rewards could be tax breaks, or coupons for local buisnesses.
URGES member nations to see that fear leads to hate, but choice leads to, willing acceptance.
1. DISCOURAGES punishment based recycling
2. ENCOURAGES incentive based recycling
What I feel is important is that any replacement of the repealed re-cycling bill be written with the dual ability to enforce its provisions yet permit a degree of national flexibility on methodology (so long as it can be proven that it is efficient).
Yet ultimately, as has been stated before, this does nothing so cannot be considered in our view a valid replacement.
May the blessings of our otters be upon you.
Leonard Otterby
Ambassador for the Republic of Compadria to the U.N.
Greenpolitik
12-01-2006, 05:34
we suggest a bill that sets up some basic parameters for a defintion if not a definition of what it means to recycle, as well as some specifications for incentives/punishments to be offered (if not types of incentives/punishments then perhaps magnitude or scope) while leaving room for some felxibility.