I wonder if a deposit system or similar could help. In some ways I'm reminded of glass bottles, littering, and encouraging the collection and reuse of them. T

I wonder if a deposit system or similar could help. In some ways I'm reminded of glass bottles, littering, and encouraging the collection and reuse of them. The core of the problem is that producers are blind to a significant portion of the lifecycle cost, so they'll package something in plastic, inside cardboard, inside another cardboard, inside another plastic. That's pretty much the standard packaging for small electronics these days, and it's insane. The only way I think we've come to accept this is that much of it is pretty recyclable.