I agree that new plastic sale ought to include the cost of disposal. I wonder if anyone has calculated approximately what that cost might be. I suspect it woul

I agree that new plastic sale ought to include the cost of disposal. I wonder if anyone has calculated approximately what that cost might be. I suspect it would make plastic much less attractive than it currently is. Which would, I guess, result in significantly less plastic use. Which is good, because plastic recycling is not an answer, it's basically a myth, it's not affordable, it's not currently hardly done (which actually makes it hard to estimate what the cost would be to include as a 'tax' in original price -- we don't actually have the infrastructure available to reclaim and sort and do all that recycling. What the cost would be is kind of a guess). We need to significantly reduce plastic use, recycling isn't really the answer. Now, if including cost of recycling in all plastic sales also would be likely to result in a giant economic recession, that's a problem to solve too. (I am not arguing for continued plastic use the way we do now. I agree the cost of recycling should be borne by original sales. I am however saying that this is not in fact a simple fix and recycling is probably not the answer, at least not in the present environment. Perhaps if we invent more recyclable types of plastic, use fewer kinds of plastic to make them easier to reclaim/sort, etc. And use a lot less plastic).