Sustainable Notebooks: Who Carries the Cost?

Summary

The market price of “sustainable” notebooks is explored, drawing on the framework of the ‘tragedy of the commons’ to postulate that as manufacturers shift costs away from the commons to comply with sustainability standards, the cost to the consumer will inevitably rise.

Keywords

Tragedy of the commons, Certification, Sustainability, Product (mathematics), Pound (networking)

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