> When did we start thinking that there is something wrong with the landfill.

In the 80s from what I understand, in response to the Mobro 4000 incident: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...

Maybe I'm just and old gnarly dude, maybe I focus on the bad parts of society too much, but I don't trust the people running these kinds of things enough. At the end of the day it's still capitalism, you might be budget restricted, you want to pay yourself a bigger bonus, whatever. I don't trust that even just the majority of landfills are constructed to contain the waste long enough. And what incentive should you have to build them that way? It's enough if they hold up until you retire from your management position. Maybe if you have some sort of moral values you might think of your grandchildren and add a couple years. But after that, who cares. Long gone, somebody else's problem.

That article says that 99% of waste is recycled in Sweden, but also points out that a large part of that is incinerated. I don't really understand how incineration can be called recycling. The cycle literally ends at that point.

That's not to say it's better than many alternatives (the article claims it's better than most landfills), but let's call it what it is.