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I don't like the trend of putting the environmental onus on consumers. If you want to stop single use plastic then ban companies from producing it.

Tax everything the amount it costs to clean it up. That way a) people will reduce the pollution it causes so they can sell it cheaper, and b) people will invent cheaper ways to clean up pollution.

If it costs $1 to clean it up, but only $0.50 to collect and recycle, problem solves itself.

> Tax everything the amount it costs to clean it up.

And don't forget to keep that taxes up to date so recycling still costs less than cleaning in the future :-)

In Germany you pay a deposit of 0,25 € for your plastic bottle of water, which you get back when you return it empty in the supermarket. The empty bottle gets shredded, not sure where it ends up, though. This could be probably be extended to other kinds of plastic.

obvious to us yes, to big corp this is the opposite of a solution.