The Globes editorial on recycling

The new Globe editorial editor Bina Venkataraman wrote a piece on recycling and how Amazon should be paying their fair share of the costs to recycle their packaging. As she wrote, recycling is not free and is costing us now and in the future way more than anyone could have imagined just a few years ago. E-commerce has certainly made the problem worse and is an important contributor to the costs that municipalities and the eventually the tax payer has to spend to get rid of the materials.
There is a bill filed last year by Michael Day that would create the Sustainable Packing Advisory Board which would create a schedule for the collection of fees from producers of printed paper and packaging and would exclude small producers and beverage containers.

I can't imagine any company in the world, let alone Amazon would ever pay any attention to such a law. The lobbyists would kill it before it even got to committee.
The answer is not on the Hill, but in every City and Town by residents who will consider what they buy and how it comes packaged and how they recycle it.

It's time for our elected municipal leaders to create a Task Force of all the stakeholders, including residents and find a way to be better at recycling.