landfills were invented within human memory. the trash can as we understand it is a 20th-century invention. disposability as a concept had to be invented. none of this is inevitable or necessary.
Cost of everything... behind the scenes too... is not just taking rubbish away and aethetical relief. Also everything is for profit-logic it seems in the doing or not doing...
@clarity Some good points here for "how it was before" and some logic (for reuse/recycle and for-profit logic too using this as a material to profit from / or be illogical in the not having!)
I do wonder about the costs as all these truck and fuel go around if they are to burn things or use fuel into atmosphere... done domestically (if we reduced and did it only on a Saturday for example) then we would do the same burning ourself or in villages (traditionally for bonfires they did for sofas and hit it under which is a lot more honest in many ways and kids get a kick too)... the whole tech and massive machines puke inefficiency and ulterior motives...
(My beer top as my 2 cents in the jar!) 
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