In explicating these ethical problems and subsequently evaluating them, I have demonstrated the centrality of ethics for wicked problems. While ethics—comprising of at least ethical principles and frameworks—on hindsight is ultimately unequal to the task of offering a better alternative to the Semakau Landfill, ethics has nonetheless surfaced new issues and questions relevant for informing future adaptation strategies on urban waste. While the field of waste management continues to be couched “in terms of relatively narrow engineering, economic and/or physical scientific discourses” (Campos & Hall, 2013: 1), my arguments however suggest that it is important to include ethics in the study of urban waste problems. If some kind of ethical analyses were carried out prior to the construction of the Semakau Landfill, perhaps there might have been some reluctance—if not unequivocal unease—for this offshore landfill. And ultimately even if there was no real alternative to the Semakau Landfill, at least the planners and the public could come to recognize a good measure of the moral costs involved.