Why can’t Places with Volcanoes, just throw all of their trash in the middle of the volcano to be incinerated?

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Really curious as I know part of the problem may be pollution, but if certain parts of trash were burnable and safe, would that be a viable waste disposal option, somehow? Thanks in advance.

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Years ago they dropped nuclear waste in subduction zones, even THAT was protested, do you not think that dropping waste into a volcano would be? Now you CAN use very high temperatures to deal with waste, Plasma Waste Destruction works on this principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

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