Something I often wonder about this is how much are the assumptions about the fuel cost of transport based on the current economic mode? For example, if we out

Something I often wonder about this is how much are the assumptions about the fuel cost of transport based on the current economic mode? For example, if we outright banned plastic bottles, would that incentivise a more distributed network of recycling and bottling centres, bringing the transport costs back down? Likewise, I see similar statistics around plastic packaging reducing food spoilage during transport. To a know-nothing like me, it feels as though the real effect would be lessened by the economy finding a new equilibrium in response to a plastic ban, but I have no idea how much we might expect that effect to be, or what kind of timescale and capital investment it might require.