Pilot Paint Program a Success?

One has to take any of these Oregon programs (my home state) with a grain of salt.

The loony left rules so anything they like is automatically declared a 'success' working - not working - an economic disaster - they are declared a success.

In Los Angeles County, when we have "Toxic Waste Collection Days" (Imagine latex paint being toxic??), we must stand in car lines for an hour, and allowed only 5 cans or so of old paint--The exhaust fumes alone will kill you, and they will not allow commercial companies to take part. NOW--If the purpose is to remove these materials from landfills, and the like, why do they put a limit on the amount, and why do the residential and commercial people become TWO? Just asking?? So the commercial guys, they take their old latex paint, roll out about 30 feet of 15# roofing felt (Black , I may add), leave it in the sun, pour the latex paint over it, leave it til hardened (water-based, remember), and roll the whole hardened mess up, and dispose of it as a solid. There--Problem solved, no laws broken, and the hypocrisy remains staggering..

Um.......................HELLO!!!!

I'm guessing that the vast majority of this paint is latex. Drying latex paint gives off primarily water vapor as it dries, once dry it can be harmlessly tossed in the trash.

Now, these people must really think we're stupid.

This program has a $200,000 surplus, and is just soooo wonderful because the cost is built into the cost of paint. There's a name for this....................it's an over-burdensome, big nasty government..............ready................TAX!!!!!

Do they think we're supposed to feel special because they are able to invent new names for ways to steal our money?

From the Oregon site:

This new law ties into the wider producer responsibility movement, in which Oregon is a national leader. Producer responsibility means manufacturers take responsibility for reducing the life cycle impacts of a product, including internalizing the end-of-life management costs, rather than having government set up and fund collection programs for waste products. The U.S. movement has resulted in 19 state electronics laws (including Oregon E-Cycles), seven state thermostat laws, one fluorescent lamp law, and several laws on batteries and auto switches.

As great as this sounds, much of US manufacturing is suffering. With the housing and construction market in the dumps, paint stores are not doing great either. Now they have been forced to become paint collection centers.

All of these laws make things much more expensive for both US manufacturers as well as consumers. Here's my next question: Are these laws forcing Chinese manufacturers to be responsible stewards of the planet, and take full responsibility for the products they produce through their entire life cycle?

Anybody want to bet that the answer is no, and that this only applies to US manufacturers.

Gee.....................Why can't we compete?

Fortunately, we've got the feds hard at work on these questions.

Latex paint probably isn't a problem

categorizing everything in a paint can the same way prevents "mistakes"

could you design a system that allowed latex, but prevented everything toxic form going to the landfill?

would it cost more or less than the present system?

who would pay?