On the face of it, this is like a bottle deposit - an incentive to return the glass bottles = clean, check and refill. This works well with beer/soda bottles ma

On the face of it, this is like a bottle deposit - an incentive to return the glass bottles = clean, check and refill. This works well with beer/soda bottles made of glass. Enter plastic bottles. The soft nature of plastics make wash/test/inspect/re-use impractical with a high fail rate(unless you started with better bottles) makes recycled bottles cost more than new ones. The basic nature of packaging must be changed so the life-cycle cost is applied at the front end. So Coca-Cola sells a 1 liter of coke = they pay a recycle cost of - say 39 cents and that is collected by an account bot, which prints a unique ~48 bit unique ID on the bottle and which follows to the recycle end and which can be redeemed to grab and segregate the bottles into unique piles of pure plastic and the bot tallies and funds each stage = the motivation that replaces altruism to make it happen. Money works this way, if you throw away or lose money, people will 'recycle' it... I feel the only way to deal with the amount of trash we create is to interdict the production in the first place (if possible) and to adequately monetize the trapping and re-use of whatever waste we make. We are in a 'stern chase', so it will take years. The border is a good check point. Imports bar code and the fee charged at importation - no matter how they wiggle/squirm/lobby - they must pay the end case recycle/reuse fee up front. Same for all domestic manufacturers. It will take years to implement, but the crap in the ocean has taken years to build up = the build-down will take as long - but it must be done.