Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-03-Speech-4-168-000"
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"en.20110203.25.4-168-000"2
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"Mr President, driving around the beautiful downlands and copses of my South East constituency, I have noticed little roadside cairns made up of white goods and other eliminated electrical items. Those little cairns are a visible monument to the law of unintended consequences. A directive intended to encourage recycling has ended up encouraging fly-tipping.
As a consequence it has vitiated the traditional notion of property rights. Our normal understanding of ownership is that if you sell me something and I buy it from you, it is then my responsibility. There is no residual obligation on you to recycle. In fact, the free market will generally recycle these things and there are these wonderful people who will do it for nothing, called scrap dealers. Sometimes they will even pay you a fee for doing it. None of this, however, is of any consolation to those of my constituents who are wondering how to get rid of their white goods.
A constituent of mine contacted me last week and asked how to get rid of their fridge. I was reduced to suggesting that she give it to her mother-in-law."@en1
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