West Lafayette is considering a "pay as you throw" trash pickup fee. There are good arguments for such a system -- our newspaper even editorialized in favor of it when Fort Wayne was considering the idea in 1992. We said it would make people think of the real costs of trash disposal and quit forcing those of us who put out little trash to subsidize those who generate too much. But this Purdue junior, writing in the Exponent student newspaper, seems a little too enthusiastic about the plan:
We can sit here all day and talk about the perfect world, where someday a mass of people will voluntarily devote their valuable time to issues like world hunger, human rights and environmental degradation. But the naked truth is that citizens generally won't
