> Landfill can easily wait for a century or two. So why take focus from the hanging problems and place into it?
Because the universal solution to almost all the problems you mentioned is to drastically cut consumption. It's amazing how many resources get wasted on stuff no one needs (i.e. that has to be advertised so that people buy it).
Coronavirus has proven the amount of unnecessary crap (especially in clothing) is way too high, in fact so high it's dangerous for our economies if a couple of weeks of lockdown lead to yet-unknown levels of economic collapse.
We as societies should radically rethink how we want to live if we want to live on this planet in two hundred years in peace.
Yet the thread is about recycling.
Efficiency (in consumption too) is a real valuable goal to work towards. And way more relevant than recycling. So, go on, you have a good problem to solve.
So, if climate chamge is an issue you care about, then recycling is one of the fixes and landfill and its methane production and waste of useful materials is one of the causes.
But since we live in a world where even the existence of climate change is a political hot potato, I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see one of the fixes attacked with well funded lies as well.
There's a rush to fix climate change, species extinctions and habitat losses, environment pollution and a huge number of problems.
Landfill can easily wait for a century or two. So why take focus from the hanging problems and place into it?