I love this thinking, but it isn't clear how to incentivize the typical municipality. I live in a very typical 35,000 person city in middle(-ish) America. A $2.

I love this thinking, but it isn't clear how to incentivize the typical municipality. I live in a very typical 35,000 person city in middle(-ish) America. A $2.00/month charge was proposed to continue supporting weekly recycling. That didn't happen and recycling was cut to every-other-week because the cost was deemed too much of a burden on retirees (no joke, this was the argument). Then, as recycling shifted from being a revenue generator (because Chinese (?) recyclers were buying it) to a cost center, many other smaller towns in the area just caved in and stopped recycling altogether. Our city instead put in place a $3/month surcharge (oh the irony). Likewise, we are in the heart of our state's wine country. Wine comes in glass bottles. Our city has never (?) had glass recycling because it was deemed not-cost-effective, as the nearest glass recycler is a four hour drive away. Point is: it's the economic incentives/disincentives for municipalities, it's all they care about.