Should Governments Slap a Tax on Plastic?

These taxes target an externality, as economists call it: A carbon tax’s externality is catastrophic climate change, and a plastic tax’s is runaway pollution. “That is the cost society faces,” says Knittel. “Layering on top a tax, in that context, makes the market work better. And so if the goal of this tax is to […]

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