[simonebrunozzi]

Absolutely 100% what you said.

But now the question is: why pretty much NO government has ever succeeded in this?

My view is that the only hope is an EU-wide requirement to change packaging, etc to be able to still sell to the EU. That would be a big enough market for every single company to comply.

[Tharkun]

Belgium allegedly had an 85+% recycling rate, though I have no idea what all this stuff gets recycled to, and I suspect it gets downcycled to useless garbage.