> found recycling to not be cost effective. Cost effective for who? If you legislate that the producers of packaging have to pay for whatever system they choo

> found recycling to not be cost effective. Cost effective for who? If you legislate that the producers of packaging have to pay for whatever system they choose to clean up after themselves then they tend to reduce how much plastic they use, and make what they do use easier to recycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibili... If you let them offload the costs as externalities, then they'll do whatever is cheapest for them, which is pretending to recycle.