@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities Really, it’s not that hard. Cans and bottles clank, they have obvious shapes. It wouldn’t be perfect, but it could work fairly easily. Of course, we can also just say that we won’t collect your garbage unless it is in a clear bag. Not so much a big deal, where I live yard waste must be separated for collection, it has to be in a can marked yard waste or in paper bags or bundled as branches. I’m sure some people occasionally hide some yard waste in regular trash on purpose or accidentally and vice versa, I’ve put a few weeds in the regular garbage myself, but for the most part it works just fine. I don’t see the big deal, why would you want to break the law? It takes no real effort on your part to recycle.
But fine, we’ll weigh your garbage and charge you by the pound, and we’ll weigh your recycling and give you a discount by the pound. Recycling must be in bins or clear bags where the contents are easily visible. No banning, strong incentive to recycle, easy to enforce, we just have to add a scale to all the trucks.
But really, no solution is going to be perfect, but some incentive needs to exist, since for some reason some people are too damn lazy to throw the cans, bottles, and paper in one bin and the rest of the garbage in another.