I commented on this before on hacker news: - Plastic is cheap to produce but difficult to recycle. Create quotas for 'new' plastic and make packagers bid for p

I commented on this before on hacker news: - Plastic is cheap to produce but difficult to recycle. Create quotas for 'new' plastic and make packagers bid for plastic in a plastic market managed by plastic producers. Petro-chemical producers still make money with less volume manufactured, since packagers have to bid for new plastic, paying more for it. This also forces more recycling since it is more competitive in comparison than outbiding in a new plastic market. - Ban single-use plastic except for medical/lab applications. - Enforce return schemes for plastic and glass at consumer shops but payed for by packagers. People will complain that prices go up but that should have been corrected a long time ago. There is no free lunch, you can't have near free cost packaging without some consequence, in this case we already have plastic in intra-uterine babies, I say the buck should stop here.