[kragen]

probably because landfills work fine if you aren't on an aircraft carrier. and they're cheaper. they're also rich veins of valuable minerals for the future, but that unfortunately doesn't figure into their present profitability

[bobthepanda]

It's also mentioned that it's more expensive than normal incineration, and waste-to-energy gets you most of the way towards eliminating the worst parts of plastic waste if done right. It's very widespread in Japan and parts of Europe already.

Usually the issue with waste-to-energy is locating a facility, and I would imagine plasma gasification would run into similar NIMBY issues just because people don't like the idea of being next to a large intake facility of garbage, regardless of how bad it is in practice.

[fomine3]

You missed many countries aren't huge unlike the US

[kragen]

do the math instead of posting random bullshit

i did

https://dercuano.github.io/topics/garbage.html

in particular

https://dercuano.github.io/notes/underground-arcology.html#a...