I thought the program was very informative..the public's knowledge of "what is recyclable" was surprising!
The government's answer to company packaging policy was not!

If businesses are allowed to label their product containers "voluntarily" how would the politicians feel about consumers "recycling" voluntarily????

Recycling isn't the answer to the problem of plastic. Even if reused it still exists in the world. And the problem still remains that plastic as it exists now as a pretroluem product doesn't break down to anything.

Throwing away is a misnomer. Where is "away"? It's still on the earth. Google for "The Story of Stuff" which is an interesting short film about the lifecycle of that "stuff" you buy everyday.

The difficulties we face today are systemic. They arise from the fact that our current market system does not include “externalities” like pollution, waste or recycling costs in the market price of most products. Perhaps municipal taxpayers should no longer provide end of life subsidies in the form of landfills, incinerators or heavily subsidized blue box programs. The critical and growing shortfall in landfill capacity, the environmental and social impacts of waste disposal and the inability of current legislation to stem the relentless growth of waste and subsequent costs to taxpayers for recycling and final disposal by municipal governments, must be driven home to ensure that the zero waste goal is embraced by all.

I just wanted to mention that one plastic egg carton make 2 sets of plastic domes for a cardboard egg Seed Starting Greenhouse Kit.