[filesystem]

I don't understand how that is really that easy. I personally don't know of anywhere (at least in the US) that measures the trash output of individual homes. So all existing curbside trash pickup infrastructure would need to be overhauled to implement measurement at the time of collection. Additionally, since trash pickup is handled by municipal / city governments currently, a new system needs to be put in place to provide oversight / enforcement of measurement & fees. The startup cost here would be enormous.

Also, this doesn't even take into account apartment buildings where individuals dump their trash into trash cutes / shared bins / etc. You would essentially need to retrofit every apartment building with a collection system capable of calculating individual output, or charge all residents of each building equally.

[chiara87]

My hometown does that - every household has its own bins (with some form of tracking) and you pay for each time they get emptied during door-to-door collection (faq in Italian https://contarina.it/faq-domande-frequenti/). Needless to say, the population density is not so high, so it works well. The recycling rate is one of the highest in Europe (source https://zerowasteeurope.eu/2015/02/new-case-study-the-story-...)