[jandrese]

That food delivery thing is an interesting idea. Delivery place switches to reusable sturdy containers. When delivering the delivery guy asks if the people have old containers to return and takes them. They're washed back at the restaurant.

It's a tough sell though. A lot more work for the restaurant and almost certainly higher costs. There will be constant shrinkage of the reusable containers to deal with as well as having to pay someone to wash them.

It would probably work best if the containers were generic and everybody used the same ones, so no matter who you ordered from this time you could return your containers from last time. But that's an even harder sell: why pass up the opportunity for advertising?

I still like the idea, but acknowledge that it would probably struggle to gain traction in the real world.

[Ericson2314]

You just gotta tax the externalizes. Markets don't care unless you make them. The City needs to just make the ban/tax and trust that the private sector can stop moping and figure it out.