Contrary to your point, a deposit doesn't shift responsibility to the producers at all but rather to the consumers. Consumers pay the deposit and then get it r

Contrary to your point, a deposit doesn't shift responsibility to the producers at all but rather to the consumers. Consumers pay the deposit and then get it refunded when they behave and suffer the consequences to their time or don't behave and are fined the deposit. The only thing a deposit accomplishes regarding producers is to enable them to use materials that are more expensive, but less so than consumers' tolerance for annoyance. With a 25 cent per bottle deposit required to make their time recycling worthwhile and companies still using plastic it really shows the enormous gap between plastic and the next closes alternative. It's also not an equitable solution. There's no real material difference between plastic bottles, plastic wraps, and plastic bags - they're all plastics after all - yet they're treated differently; you don't have say a five cent deposit on the plastic your fruit is wrapped in, but you do have a deposit for a bottle.