Why do we not have an electric power generation plant at every landfill?
Because govern-cement wants to see us die.

The govern-cement has regulated out of existence, one of the most needed forms of electrical power production. Burning our waste.

With furnaces similar to a rocket stove, you can burn almost everything that gets sent to the dump. And it burns extremely cleanly (because the ultra high temperatures in the after burn, burn all the pollutants.)

And, after we bury all that shit, it leaks methane gas, which is burnt off. But noooo, we can't produce a methane fired electric plant. That would just be too hard.