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Earth Day: Corporate Edition

By G. Tracy Mehan, III on 4.22.08 @ 12:07AM

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RecycleBank serves over a 100,000 customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. In Wilmington 90 percent of residents reduced garbage going into the landfill by 40 percent. With "tipping fees" at $70 a ton, that yields of savings of $800,000, half of which the city shares with RecycleBank.

This Earth Day finds many more companies moving into a wide variety of environmental services, products and markets. It seems to be worth their while thus encouraging more of the same.

Incentives matter: this is a fundamental principle of free market environmentalism. Making money through the provision of environmental amenities creates powerful motivation for conservation and cleaner technologies to the benefit of all.

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Letter to the Editor

topics:
Trade, Business, Environment, Law, Energy

G. Tracy Mehan, III served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the administrations of both Presidents Bush. He is a consultant in Arlington, Virginia, and an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law.

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