TRASH TROUBLES: Province on brink of waste crisis
Part 1 of 3: Garbage outstripping space
By Don Campbell and Thana Dharmarajah Newmarket Era Banner Oct 20, 2011
Bob Beacock ignores the overpowering stench. He walks into a pile of sticky, torn garbage bags dumped on top of one of Ontario’s heaping landfill sites.
Landfills filling up with recyclables
Part 2 of 3: Fewer landfills in future
By Don Campbell and Thana Dharmarajah Newmarket Era Banner Oct 21 2011
Garbage in Ontario is a mess. Durham and York are building a controversial incinerator, Guelph is just getting a handle on its wet waste again with a new compost facility that will also take food waste from Waterloo Region. And Simcoe County faces a dire situation with less than six years of usability left for three of its four landfills.
Our trash becomes treasure
Part 3 of 3: Finding markets for trash
By Don Campbell and Thana Dharmarajah Newmarket Era Banner Oct 21, 2011
A tattered basketball shoe, a Donald Duck plastic toy, VHS tapes and a championship trophy sit scattered in a sorting room at Canada’s largest waste recovery plant?
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