And they did it their way. Again, I understand the nature of the public sector and do not fault individuals for doing the best they can within it. But my incentives were perverse, which I found untenable. Thanks for your input. It will clean itself up if we don't.
Government has a reasonable track record in preventing harm of one individual onto another.
Extending that to include more generalized trashing and dumping should not be that difficult. But government has a poor track record at deciding how to correct anything, even worse if government is involved in actually doing it. Managing the environment, other than small segments at a time, e.g., a farm, it is pretty much out of the question. The reality is that the economy is too much complex to coarse tune, much less fine tune. What economists really learned it how to not cause harm.