In the US, almost everything sent there. Household waste should be separated into categorized bins; Compost, Glass, Aluminum, Steel, Burnable waste, Non-burnable waste, and E-waste. Unfortunately there is no incentive for consumers to do this and this results in a particularly putrid communal dumpster situation for a first world country.
Even if household consumers separate their waste the garbage collection would throw it all in the landfill anyway because recycling in the US doesn't exsist. It was a scam to decrease the guilt in consumers and increase single use plastic consumption.
The only thing that should go to landfills is ash, and in some cases non-burnable waste.
Some ash can even be used, wood ash is great as fertilizer for some plants as it contains a lot of potassium hydroxide.
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