landfills

The city is mentioned in the article for the addition of composting to its recycling program, and how this keeps more trash out of landfills.

Official credo suggests that landfills will continue to play a dominant role.

Recycling isn't perfect, but polluting oceans or landfills is a lot worse.

That landfills are any kind of solution is also very debatable.

There are millions and millions of computers destined for landfills.

An interesting tidbit is that recycling [reuse] rates has increased such that there isn't enough trash to burn (and burning is still much better than landfills).

I think the best approach there would be to tax the landfills themselves.

Of course landfills decompose, that's an absurd assertion.

Almost all of them ended up in landfills.

Only 1-2% of trash ends up in landfills.

I guess a lot of the devices are going to landfills.

Nothing resembling that occurs in landfills.

So eventually when the cost of finding/creating new materials makes recycling economically feasible we "mine" old landfills and use the materials.

"I guess a lot of the devices are going to landfills." I'm feeling doubtful that this will happen.

My first thought from "properly dispose of, we don't want it in landfills" was, this is for hazardous waste -- you know, that box of old paint cans and dead SLA batteries that you know your city has a plan for, if only you could be bothered to figure it out.

Landfills currently handle roughly half of China's MSW, while only about 10% is incinerated.

Landfills accept discarded lithium batteries as regular waste.

Landfills are orders of magnitude less dense.