>This might be a better fate than having them end up in a landfill... If you're not recycling them, why is burning them better than putting them into a landfil

>This might be a better fate than having them end up in a landfill... If you're not recycling them, why is burning them better than putting them into a landfill? Is it the fact that plastics don't biodegrade and will last in the ground for thousands of years? Isn't that good? Aren't we trying to find carbon sequestration techniques?