from CBC News:
The last truck filled with garbage from Canada’s largest city arrived in neighbouring Michigan on Thursday, ending a 12-year agreement to haul detritus from the Greater Toronto Area across the Canada-U.S. border.
The transportation of Toronto’s garbage to the landfill site in Michigan drew the ire of U.S. environmentalists, with anti-dumping groups emerging in the state to demand that foreign trash be banned.
The agreement to ship the garbage began in 1998 after a plan to ship Toronto’s trash to an unused mine in northern Ontario was scrapped.
It wasn’t until 2003 that Toronto started shipping 100 per cent of its garbage across the border. At the height of the deal, 142 trucks a day were making the trip, hauling an estimated 10,000 tons of garbage daily.
Starting Jan. 1, 2011, Toronto’s garbage will be disposed of at the city-owned Green Lane landfill, near London, Ont.
This post was written by
Gabriel Caplett – who has written 106 posts on Headwaters - Community Journalism for the Great Lakes.
Gabriel Caplett is a writer and market farmer from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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