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Mindin’ Mayor Miller: Make Your Lungs the Landfill!
MDM: Recycle!
Chorus: Incinerate!
MDM: Divert 100% of our waste!
Chorus: Impossible unless we burn, baby, burn!
Mayor DM has faced hurdles aplenty, but waste diversion has the sting of the impossible attached to it. It’s a laudable goal, diverting 100% of our waste. But experts say it’s but a green dream unless we burn at least some of our waste. And, according to enviroguy Gord Perks, by way of Dr. Gridlock, “It’s making your lungs the landfill.” Catch 22? More like catch the flying asthma.
‘Advance thermal technology,’ as anyone whose ever bought overpriced heat-sensitive exercise wear knows, is well-designed euphemism. Three words can get drunk together, but they’re still just superficial words, dressed up as enviromental friendliness, but dirtier than coal inside.
The report itself says we could achieve 88% waste diversion by 2010 if we put our hearts, minds and juice boxes toward this goal. Deal. MDM gives up his Juicy Juice, and Torontoist remembers to bring along the ‘coffee thermos’ when we wander out for a cup of coffee. More information here.