Not really, if the companies are putting plastic in unrecorded landfills, we can claim they are just dumping and not really recycling (this happens in South Ita

Not really, if the companies are putting plastic in unrecorded landfills, we can claim they are just dumping and not really recycling (this happens in South Italy). If the landfills are documented and it's not easy to make any place a landfill without going through a proper regulatory process, then it can serve as a good recycling step.