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Breaking News: Toronto’s New Four Year Garbage Plan

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

2006_8_31garbage.jpgTorontoist has just heard on CBC that the Ontario and Michigan governments two Michigan senators have brokered a deal that will see Toronto stop shipping garbage to Michigan in four years. The amount of garbage shipped south of the border will be cut by 20% this year and every year following. We’ll keep you updated on this story.
The deal will force Toronto to look at options like incineration and shipping it to other places, as well as redoubling our efforts at diversion. A four year decrease allows the city some breathing room to find viable alternatives.
Update: Here’s the story from 680 News and AM640
Update: The Star/CP has their story here. Queen’s Park has come out and said that the city can’t use Adams Mine as a new dump. Thank goodness, no one wants to see that debate rehashed at council.

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  • Jamie

    Why would Toronto have to incinerate? We could just speed up the green bin program in apartments and start enforcing garbage bag limits.
    Don’t be too quick to play with fire or we’ll all get burned!

  • http://cork2toronto.eircom.net Mark Dowling

    That would be interesting to see – the Mayor putting garbage limits in his re-election platform! My guess would be that he would run as far away as he did from tolls on the Gardiner last time. That said Pitfield hasn’t the bottle to tackle the issue either.

  • Michael

    Too true, Mark. Not only that, but garbage limits inspire people to over stuff bags and dump illegally.
    When I lived in Guelph, they had one hell of a program. Everyone had two garbage streams, dry and wet. No other sorting necessary. The bags were clear and if you couldn’t master the simple system, the garbage(wo)man left your crap at the curb until you fixed the problem.
    Simple and inexpensive for the citizen, thats the key. Now, don’t ask me what happened to the dry stuff after it was hauled away. …

  • Anderson Pisaniello

    Well,
    If we take just the amount of plastic, paper and wood wasted in GTA, recycle and transform in hard plates/boards, we should have milions in recycled building materials to be sold/donated to poor countries in South America as a sheep/alternative ways to build affortable homes.
    Plus, with the great technology and knowledge that Canada has in reforesting programs, it should help those countries to recover areas and to produce wood for structural purposes.
    This is a purpose I was working on before come to Canada and realize that I was not able to work as an Architect / Urban Planner here.
    anyway….