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Most of Manhattan would say it worked out really well. Since they are living on old land fill.
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Landfills are actually pretty high-tech these days. They engineer them to have good drainage that gets the water filtered before putting it into the aquifer. Many have methane capture systems that generate electricity, too. >

Oh I agree, it's just the overall volume of material is still increasing.... My concern is these other advancements are only at the margins >

I heard that If the USA was a football field, we could fit all our trash for the next 1000 years in just 1 inch. I'm not worried about space to put it, I'm more concerned with recovering rare earth metals and such from the things we throw out