This feels like very low quality propaganda.

Like at one point it spends a whole paragraph on how landfills are better than just spreading trash around randomly.

Is there someone out there seriously arguing that developing nations should just recycle and entirely skip modern landfills?

Are they implicitly arguing that the US has a developing nation level of civic infrastructure?

Is there someone out there seriously arguing that developing nations should just recycle and entirely skip modern landfills?

It's even worse than that. There are a bunch of nonprofits that are spending their limited funds building recycling infrastructure in developing countries where they could get a much greater ROI (in terms of environmental preservation and quality of life for the people who live there) by putting that money toward building traditional landfills.