Why do we tend to use landfills instead of incineration plants for our trash?

Question

You’d have a lot less to bury if you burned it first, right?

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Answer 1

US answer. Burning was common decades ago. Once we got environmental regulations (laws passed during Nixon reign, most of the basic regs written late Nixon/Ford), incinerators found that they weren’t cost effective if they actually obeyed the rules.