Dirty, smelly built-up land with tractors moving across acres of trash and vultures flying above: That’s the picture of a landfill .

For decades, adding landfill space has been left out of the public discussion of ways to keep up with the massive growth in the amount of garbage Americans produce.

And that’s been the way in Palm Beach County, where the sole landfill is expected to run out of space in about 30 years.

To extend its life, county commissioners have approved building a $1.5 billion incinerator to burn millions of tons of garbage generated in the county every year. It will be the most expensive capital project in the county’s history, more than twice the cost of the $670 million incinerator built in 2015.

But environmentalists say it’s a bad decision and point to a soluti

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