[abandoned] Regulating Packaging

[Tyrannyicalist]

Abandoned

[Liberimery]

EPA is a real world reference and the tax mandates are conflicting with existing WA laws that restrict the WA from violating a Nations right to set its own taxation policy. Plastic bags for fruits on grocery stores are normally provided at no cost and are useful for preventing spoilage as they don’t let microbial agents into vaccuum packaged foods and ease of carrying (you can carry many oranges in a bag more easily then without one). Also they are less prone to failure in rain or other water heavy environments.

[Fleeta]

"Article 1a A tax on retail corporations for packaging fruit, groceries or other
foods with wasteful packaging despite them having a layer of their own
protections, i.e oranges and bananas"

Even if the WA was indeed authorized to impose taxes (which it isnt), a simple petroleum grocery bag is not wasteful as defined. Plastic is recyclable. Also, could you perhaps provide an example of a banana or orange packaging used today that would be considered wasteful by your standards?

[Tyrannyicalist]

"Article 1a A tax on retail corporations for packaging fruit, groceries or other
foods with wasteful packaging despite them having a layer of their own
protections, i.e oranges and bananas"

Even if the WA was indeed authorized to impose taxes (which it isnt), a simple petroleum grocery bag is not wasteful as defined. Plastic is recyclable. Also, could you perhaps provide an example of a banana or orange packaging used today that would be considered wasteful by your standards?

this, 3rd draft will hacvea more legal definition. Also I will change the tax policies

[Tyrannyicalist]

EPA is a real world reference and the tax mandates are conflicting with existing WA laws that restrict the WA from violating a Nations right to set its own taxation policy. Plastic bags for fruits on grocery stores are normally provided at no cost and are useful for preventing spoilage as they don’t let microbial agents into vaccuum packaged foods and ease of carrying (you can carry many oranges in a bag more easily then without one). Also they are less prone to failure in rain or other water heavy environments.

I will change the tax policies and change the committee name to EPC (Enviormental Protection Corporation) but I was not talking about bags I was talking more about how it's sold in shopsnwith overexcessive packaging like this

[Tyrannyicalist]

bump

[Separatist Peoples]

"This is...terribly vague. The syntax reads like a factory worker dictating policy ideas rather than carefully crafted law, and the vagaries make this almost entirely unenforceable. Opposed."

[Maowi]

bump

Please do not bump your thread within under 12 hours of your last post. Wait until it's dropped off the first page and at least 24 hours or so have passed since the last post.

You've only had this up a couple of days; that's not nearly enough time for everyone with relevant feedback to a) have come online, b) have read through your proposal, and c) given comments on it. This ought to happen several times until you've got a thoroughly revised piece of legislation that you're happy with before you put out a last call.

[Tyrannyicalist]

"This is...terribly vague. The syntax reads like a factory worker dictating policy ideas rather than carefully crafted law, and the vagaries make this almost entirely unenforceable. Opposed."

I will work on specification

[Tyrannyicalist]

"This is...terribly vague. The syntax reads like a factory worker dictating policy ideas rather than carefully crafted law, and the vagaries make this almost entirely unenforceable. Opposed."

Would you like to specify which parts are vague. Yes I realise that sounds sarcastic and I swear it's not

[Separatist Peoples]

"This is...terribly vague. The syntax reads like a factory worker dictating policy ideas rather than carefully crafted law, and the vagaries make this almost entirely unenforceable. Opposed."

Would you like to specify which parts are vague. Yes I realise that sounds sarcastic and I swear it's not

"Every single line is too vague to be useful, ambassador. For your edification, I'll go line by line.

Establishes the EPC (enviormental protection comittee) a committee commited to examine corporations to ensure that they are follow the rules of this resolution.

"First, you've spelled 'environmental', 'committee', and 'committed' wrong. Second, you direct the EPC to examine corporations without specifying how. Will the EPC be sending inspectors? Require quarterly reports? And what about businesses that are not corporations in form?"

Mandates the EPC to be funded by WA resources but

"From where, WA states or the World Assembly as an organization?"

Permits the EPC to accept charity donations

"Permits is ambiguous. Are you issuing permits to accept charity? 'Allows' is a better word. Also, what about conditional donations?"

Mandates the EPC to measure the production and supply of wasteful packaging, the production and supply of bioplastics, the purchases of wasteful packaging, the purchases of bioplastics and these statistics in relation to eachother on an online public library in order to gauge how effective the EPC is and inform the public of their progress

"How will the production and supply be measured? Weight? Mass? Unit volume? Without knowing this, businesses cannot predict how to be compliant. Also, posting the business records online for all to use sounds like a concerning amount of transparency for private businesses."

Mandates the EPC allow itself to get thoroughly examined by the WA for corruption twice a year

"How. Are you sending inspectors on a walk-through of the building? Reviewing records? Auditing finances? Who is inspecting? Where do they report suspected corruption? What authority has jurisdiction to prosecute?"

Hereby mandates that all WA member nations regulate the distribution of wasteful packaging and lower consumers of wasteful packaging in accordance to below Articles:

"What constitutes wasteful?"

Article 1 That water bottles are made with bioplastics

"But not soft drinks? Milk? Energy drinks? Coffee? Juice? Tea?"

Article 2
Delivery companies get fined for packaging material other then bioplastics, cardboard or paper for land or airnbased delivery

"So no packaging in metal containers? No non-bioplastic material for transporting chemicals and solvents? Why are you only fining delivery companies and not the manufacturers? Delivery companies are only the carriers. Often they don't even pack goods."

Article 2
When at sea it is permitted for delivery companies to use metal containers for packaging

"But not otherwise? Why does sea travel get a special exemption? It strikes me that dumping metal into the ocean is more problematic than dumping metal on land, given metal's interaction with corrosive liquid."

Article 3a
Trash companies switch to the use of bioplastic packaging in the context of trash bags

"But not, say, recycling companies? Manufacturers can still sell plastic bags, so long as the garbagemen don't use them? A short-sighted phrasing."

Article 4
Retail companies switch to bioplastics in the context of shopping bags

"This leaves a huge exception for wholesalers, and also ignores non-bioplastic alternatives, like cloth and paper.

"All in all, this entire policy is shortsighted and ill-conceived. We will not support this measure."