I don’t think you can effectively regulate any of these things without changing the way society operates. Our economy, the whole world, is currently based on gr

I don’t think you can effectively regulate any of these things without changing the way society operates. Our economy, the whole world, is currently based on growth. We need to switch our society to one that isn’t based on constant growth. Then, there will be things we can do like regulate disposable things so that only very important disposable items are allowed, like medical supplies that need to be perfectly clean or whatever. Until we’re all on the same page of not wasting resources in the altar of growth, not much can be done to effectively fix this problem. Tech solutions like fancy recycling are like that Simpsons episode where they have a problem with some invasive animal, so they release an increasingly complex chain of invasive animals to kill the previous invasive animal, leading to releasing gorillas to eat snakes who will then die in the winter. You are just pushing the real problem down the road.