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

simplest answer.

cost and availability of land. as an example Japan has neither a cheap place to put garbage or the free land to bury it which leads to them burning an awfully lot of trash.

because Japan is a fairly obedient and group focused society people sort their trash into burnables and non burnables.

if NA was not so vast and empty burning trash would be much more normal..not exactly sure what the small European nations do.