Yeah and at the end of the day the cost to make things more recyclable will still likely be born by the consumer in higher prices instead of higher local government rates, but we could at least be forcing more recyclable packaging and better product choices with circular lifecycles.

Unbridled capitalism sucks. The drive for ever increasing profits is a race to find the most loopholes. We as consumers have mechanisms to protect the things we care about in government and regulation and it should be working for us collectively, not to just help a few sociopathic arseholes consume harder than anyone with another private yacht. Sadly government tends to be easily captured by private industry.

The solution is simple, have government regulate effectively. Sadly the steps to get there are complex and a lot of them seem almost insurmountable.