Why The Polluter-Pays Principle

The polluter-pays principle is a principle put into effect, to make those who pollute pay for their pollution or mistakes made. It is a very important principle because if it wasn’t put into place it would either be on the tax payers to pay for the destruction from pollution. If that wasn’t the case, then our environment would be ramped with toxic substances. Polluter-pays principle is necessary for us and our environment because it puts those who are responsible for polluting our environment in charge of fixing what they have done. However, we talked about in class how some companies don’t do anything they would much rather pay the fines then incorporate something into their company to save on pollution. We also talked about how if some companies