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

[UK plastics sent for recycling in Turkey dumped and burned, Greenpeace finds](https://archive.is/2021.05.17-081401/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/17/uk-plastics-sent-for-recycling-in-turkey-dumped-and-burned-greenpeace-finds)

Bit of a rabbit hole once you look at countries being paid to take another country’s waste.

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