If consumers had to pay a significant amount for each load of trash removed from their home, you’d see the market for ultra low waste products skyrocket.
And then the economic value of recycling—from careful sorting by homeowners to the processing of material by recyclers—would immediately make sense.
The same is true for the huge numbers of empty Walmarts throughout the US. We should have made them escrow demolition costs at the time the building was made.
If you put the costs at the very end then all of the trash will still be produced, but nobody could throw it away. Our entire society saves production and reduces waste if you punish the producers of that waste instead.
In my view, we should be building more effective landfilling infrastructure and stop telling people that putting their garbage in the yellow bin is somehow better or more moral or environmentally friendly. We have plenty of land that can be used to sequester waste, the issue here is people have been tricked for years into thinking that recycling is better or somehow good for the environment while ignoring the effects of energy intensive recycling plants and waste incineration because it's a feel good talking point.
Plastic you throw in the recycling either gets burned or sent somewhere it might be processed and apparently end up free in the environment. We should just be sticking it in the ground until we can enact policies to limit waste.
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.