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This topic need not be in response to any news flash or trending topic, trash and landfills have been a problem for decades in many places, not just North America and China. Many civilizations and cities have continuously struggled with their waste. Overcrowded cities and polluted rivers, Engels wrote about that, and if you go back, all historians wrote about that problematic aspect of dense settlements.

The term N.I.M.B.Y. (Not in my backyard) is used because no one in their right mind would want a landfill, an incinerator or for that matter an open mine pit or a factory next to their home. China's coasts and many other countries' are polluted not because of landfills. but because of industry and commerce (big cargo all the time ships). Currently a lot of countries sell their scrap and junk metals to China, but not most kinds of trash. No one is keen on the prospect of piling trash where they live.

United States, being almost a whole continent, can move trash around from state to state in trucks or trains, so if one landfill closes, it's not as big a deal as countries which have more limited space to dispose of their trash. In Arizona, some years ago they displaced houses to expand a landfill. In UK some years ago, a landfill shut down after it was overshadowing a row of walk-ups, threatening tip over. In India, landfill landslides have killed people. That's just off the top of my head.

Burning trash is toxic, the ash themselves are toxic. Are you a shill for incinerators?