Western landfills are pretty good at physically containing trash especially plastic. Our current crisis was because we more or less decided “shipping plastic a

Western landfills are pretty good at physically containing trash especially plastic. Our current crisis was because we more or less decided “shipping plastic away” was as good as “recycling plastic.” So we stopped burying our plastic in a very safe way, and instead we burned fossil fuels to ship it to Asia, where they just let it get into the ocean. If we just do back to burying our plastic (and trying really hard to collect it all in the trash stream), we’d all be better off.