It's better to bury ash than trash

It appears as though protests lodged by environmentalists against plans to build an incinerator in the southern England county of Sussex have been rejected by the High Court.
Good!
Sometimes I honestly have cause to wonder just what these enviro-types put in their tea. Have they thought out their objection to waste incinerators thoroughly?
Incinerators used to be clunky, marginally unsafe operations—true—but technology has moved on.
Incinerators can not only now act as energy suppliers by tapping the energy given off by the burning of society's debris and detritus, but safely handle all the toxic and biological wastes that laboratories and hospitals create. Are environmentalists honestly saying that we should continue to landfill that stuff? We're talking about some extremely nasty waste here, and burning it seems like a perfectly logical answer.
Think about all the soiled diapers that go into the garbage stream. Gonna procreate? Then incinerate.
And for all the recycling that some households and companies apparently do, there still seems to be plenty of trash around. Well, it's all plastic. Good ol' plastic. Plastic that can't be recycled or simply isn't profitable to recycle. All the styrofoam and polypropelene (so-called #5 plastics) that abound in cafeterias, makes up drinks containers and which nearly every single item in the supermarket comes packaged in. Not to mention all those plastic shopping bags that everyone adores and finds so convenient. All this gets thrown out by the hundreds of thousands of tons in every major city, every day.
Just think of the typical bag of rubbish that a business like Souper Salad, for instance, creates (all those disposable plastic salad trays and forks!), and multiply that by 100 billion. This is the sort of crisis we're facing because we're apparently too stupid as a species to remember how we ever survived without all this "convenience" before it got invented and started filling every nook and cranny in our lives such as it currently does.
So, until every business, supplier, packager and even—God forbid—the great unwashed public itself grows a conscience and stops relying so much on all this unrecyclable and completely non-biodegradable shit, it seems to me that we have no other option but to burn it all.
Just how much land do these environmentalists think we have available to us to continue to pack it all with the mind-boggling amount of residential, commercial and industrial waste that is created every second? If we don't build that incinerator in Sussex, what's to stop that land from becoming a dump, after all? Would that make the enviro-loonies happy?
Somehow I doubt it.
In fact, in countries like Japan, where space is at a premium—and before long this entire planet will be like Japan in that respect—incinerators are the primary mode of dealing with society's wastestream. Scandinavia, too, has long used incinerators; Sweden still has plenty of land for forests, their standard of living is still high and 8 percent of their energy is supplied from the 50 percent of solid waste that they burn.
And not only can incinerators provide energy these days, but technological advances have helped to deal with the dioxin—a toxic chemical—that incinerators admittedly produce.
In the United Kingdom alone, according to a 2006 BBC news report, incineration of trash and other waste is due to rise. It's no wonder why, given the extremely limited amount of space and resources on this tiny island.
It's time these environmental protestors hitched up their hemp jeans and took on whole new mantra: "It's better to bury ash than trash!"