Taken together, the Semakau Landfill could be seen in retrospect as the result of a plausibly biased framing process. The construction of the landfill also led to many unintended and undesirable consequences. However, the consequences discussed in this article were hardly unforeseeable consequences of sitting a landfill offshore. And in anticipation of peak waste for this region, the Semakau Landfill is likely to be closed before waste stream in Singapore could see any significant reduction. This final argument is of course, tentative. But going by global trends in waste, and by the projection of urban waste based on data from the last decade in Singapore (see NEA, 2014b), this final argument is not completely unjustified.