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

We breathe the air. Putting all the world’s garbage into the air is a bad idea.

Especially now that people are finally starting to care about climate change/global warming, which is directly caused by human-created CO2 in the air. Burning anything organic makes CO2. Burning all the garbage would cause a HUGE increase in CO2 emissions, offsetting everything everyone is doing to reduce our current emissions and substantially accelerating an already-awful situation.