Wasting Away: Dump Crisis Needs ‘Landfill Transition’

Recycled plastic bottles at the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority's recycling site in Edinburgh, Australia, on April 17, 2019. Brenton Edwards/AFP via Getty Images

Sydney is fast running out of landfill.

And its limited options threaten to force New South Wales (NSW) authorities to send some junk interstate after 2030 and force households to separate their food scraps.