A page of technology  with some relevance to energy and a term I may have invented 

There is much talk of waste disposal. This includes plastic pollution, CO2 emissions, nuclear waste, ewaste... many diverse topics.

They have in common that:

• Our industrial society produces vast and increasing quantities of waste.
• The dangers of these wastes are largely unknown or controversial, or if they are known are not publicly known.
• The disposal of this waste is generally underfunded, or on many cases unfunded and must eventually be paid by governments.
• Recycling is often uneconomic, as it is cheaper to manufacture new material rather than purify recycled material from a waste stream to the same standard.  

I propose a solution that seems to me obvious. 

The purchase price cost of every product or material should include the predicted cost of its eventual disposal.

Probably this is not a new idea. Possibly it already has another name. But I think it deserves far more discussion than it is currently getting.

There is already one instance of it at least, in the European Green_Dot system. Hopefully we will see more such schemes, and even gradual adoption of the general principle.

Watch this space