Reddit reviews Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage

Here're a couple of my favorite archaeology books. The first one is about modern garbage, and is based around the idea that "what people have owned--and thrown away--can speak more eloquently, informatively, and truthfully about the lives they lead than they themselves ever may."

Rubbish!

The second one is a seminal text of historical archaeology, James Deetz' In Small Things Forgotten. amazon link

Look into the "Tucson Garbage Project". Since the mid 1980s, William Rathje and his students at the Univ..of Arizona have been working in modern landfills. The seminal publication is here. The project applied traditional archaeological techniques to the excavation of modern garbage dumps.

Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage

In no particular order:

More like a journalist's POV: Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte

A Better version of Royte's book: Waste and Want by Susan Strasser

This is just a good read: Gone Tomorrow

My Objective Favorite (has the story about the 50 year old hot dog):
Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage by William Rathje

About personal hygiene with some intersecting stories: The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg

I have not read but I'm including because I cannot find my Primer on Recycling and this book is on my wish list: Garbology by Edward Humes

Glass is incinerated along with other waste in incinerators. Again, depending on where you live. My waste goes to an incinerator.

You don't understand what happens to waste in a landfill. Glass will not become sand. It won't settle to the bottom. It shouldn't serve as a means for leachate to escape out to the water table. Glass is not entirely made of sand and will leach out its other ingredients over time unless it is recycled.

Material settles in landfills only because gases form, and escape through collection, leaching, or explosion. Glass will not get crushed over time.

There's a funny story in this book about a time they dug into a 50 year old landfill and picked out a hot dog that was in the same condition as when it was put there.

Again, you obviously haven't done any research on the subject beyond posting your first search result based on your hunches and calling it an argument.