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The entry on Waste Management, Inc.:

Like wind and solar power, landfill gas is a natural resource that can be harnessed to produce clean energy[citation needed]. Waste Management’s landfill gas-to-energy program is a vital and important part of North America’s drive to develop alternative energy sources and promote environmental sustainability.[citation needed]

Found in the search for a current complete dataset for US landfill locations. The most recent systematic survey that cursory research has turned up is from 1986 (XML here). As Andrew Orlowski put it: “It’s strange to see how the anti-growth Carbon Cult has successfully pushed more immediate—and very real—environmental crimes such as pollution right off the agenda.” But if in fact the most recent publicly accessible systematic data on landfills in the US is twenty-two years old—a period that spans four US presidents and probably doesn’t correlate with any data horizon—the problem runs a bit deeper than corporate wikiwashing (a word that, as of this writing, generates a meager five hits on Google).

Prompted by an NYT article on Italy shipping garbage from Naples to Hamburg (1900km, literally the height of Europe):

Outside Naples, Europe’s trash may not yet be overflowing in the streets. But across the Continent, longstanding landfill sites are filling up quickly, and in Europe’s small spaces there is little room for new ones. The problem has made it imperative for European nations to cut their waste.

The problem is limited to European nations, of course.