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

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

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Some trash is an absolute disaster to burn…electric waste for instance is a massive health risk.

Other times landfill is cheaper and we kinda expect “someone” to recycle it

We have a very out of sight out of mind mentality with our trash

It isn’t even necissarily done for climate protection.. it is simply cheaper to landfill something and also companies are very aware of burning certain trash causing straight up chemical disasters..so they will prefer the landfill

Companies will choose the cheaper option especially if the more expensive option of burning trash likely comes with endless lawsuits of having caused chemical and ecological disasters way worse than the out of sight out of mind approach the landfill gets u

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