This is sloppy English. Consumers are responsible for the PRODUCTION of waste products. Government is responsible for the COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL of those waste products. This is what the consumer pays taxes for. When the government increasingly involves the citizen in the performance of a task the government is obliged to fulfill, it is shirking its responsibility and its duty. It is also coercing the taxpayer twice: Once, by extorting tax dollars at the point of a gun, and twice, by forcing the taxpayer to become involved in the job the taxpayer has already paid the government to do. Far from "plac(ing) responsibility on the individual," the Swedish recycling polices "place" EXTORTION AND SLAVERY on the individual. Calling extortion and slavery "responsibility" is a perversion of the word's meaning, and calling gun pointing "placing" is as euphemistic as calling governmentally-imposed and monopolized garbage collection and recycling "service."

I highly doubt you’re suggesting we make trash disposal voluntary. It has to be mandatory. If it’s going to be mandatory, then giving mandatory trash disposal over to private enterprise means those businesses will benefit from an artificially high market value for their services, because anyone who doesn’t pay them goes to jail (Unless your suggesting businesses won’t take advantage of the situation and give their coerced customers the fair market value.).

If trash collection is mandatory, and cannot be privatized because of this, then recycling must also be mandatory because it keeps the taxpayer-funded waste-management service cheaper for everyone. If your system is more expensive and inconvenient than our American system, then you need to take it up with your local government.

Making garbage disposal voluntary is unfeasible, and privatizing a consumer product the government mandates the use of is unjust.