I see these articles about landfills overflowing and waste being improperly dumped in our oceans. Why can’t we just burn all of the garbage and never have to deal with it again?
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All that does is transform land pollution into air pollution, and it is MUCH cheaper and easier to manage land pollution than air pollution. You aren’t solving the problem, you are making it harder to manage.
Also landfills are eventually turned back into usable land. You are not ruining anything by creating one as long as it is created safely (lines to protect against contamination of local groundwater, for example)
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