What you think about landfill and recycling is probably wrong

"We aren’t anywhere near running out of space for landfill. The Earth is huge and we are good at digging deep holes. Space will never be a meaningful constraint."

While true in general there is a very big problem called NIMBYism (not in my back yard) where a great many places refuse to allow new landfills--resulting in the refuse having to be transported very long distances--and thus using a great deal of energy for the transportation.

Almost all municipal recycling goes to the landfill, ever since foreign countries stopped accepting American recyclables.

This article is quite a bit of "out of sight, out of mind" short shortsightedness.