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Personal responsibility comes to mind. If recycling cost is the problem, I'd bet it can be surmounted by offsetting the expense by charging for multiple, overloaded garbage cans on trash-day. After all, if you're too lazy to do the right thing, then pay the price for it.
Do you believe that there's ever-expanding room for waste dumps?

At the current rate of landfill usage factoring in growth and if recycling were eliminated completely, we would only have used 1/12,000th of the usable land for landfills after 50 years. It would be at least another 24,000 years before all the usable space is used up! This space does not include any land that is used for farming or national parks or areas that are already built up. Other things can be done with the garbage sure, but recycling is not going to eliminate the problem. People who have alot of trash pay more to have it hauled anyway, so your solution by charging more to those who have more is faulty logic, they are already paying more. Landfills in the past have polluted groundwater, but the requirements for building a landfill these days have virtually eliminated this problem for the future. It's not just a hole in the ground like people think. Landfills are protected by layers of sand and rock and a thick durable, chemical resistant plastic liner that would not decompose for a million years. The ultimate solution is possibly incineration, maybe it would become economical in the future to make more waste-to-energy facilities, but right now it is cost-prohibitive. All I am saying is let a free-market solution come and it will. The government doesn't need to mandate everything on everyone. If I am too "lazy" to recycle that is my business, much of what people think is "recycled" is actually disposed of in a landfill or it sits in an unsanitary warehouse. Recycling is failing as an option right now, that is what I am saying.