[jquery]

>if you hold industry liable for damage done by people improperly discarding its products, soon you will have no industry

I don't see how this follows. It might make plastics more expensive... but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[kragen]

liability for people improperly discarding your products is unlimited; there is no limit to how much damage they can do, and there's nothing you can do to stop them except screen your clients very carefully

and that's why, for example, armadillo aerospace went under; vendors of rocket-grade peroxide do screen their clients very carefully, for precisely that reason, and they had to scrap their peroxide engine design and go back to the drawing board

industry is going to happen instead in places like china where it's allowed (at least for chinese people)