Incinerating waste versus landfill

This journalist explores the question of burning waste vs landfills. At 6:04-30 he discusses the economics of this Swedish plant that burns 60 tons of waste an hour, and cost $500M to build, and $35M a year to run: - it makes $10M a year in electricity and $35M a year in municipal heating, distributed in pipes around the city. They burn so much waste that they're actually importing it from other countries.

As he mentions at 8:24, it's far better to recycle than to burn waste. 

As he concludes at 25:14, waste with its plastic content is just a low-grade oil - its better to recycle.