Ontario Abandons Landfill Plan, Pushes For 60 Percent Recycling

Date: March 31, 2004

Source: News Room

Ontario's government has abandoned a controversial plan to convert an old mine into a landfill and instead is embracing plans to recycle 60 percent of the province's waste by 2008. The move comes as Toronto and Michigan stand at odds over the shipment of Canadian waste into the United States. Parish officials determined that the proposal to dump waste into the abandoned open-pit mine was too controversial and too expensive to ever implement properly. The province already is bearing a $5.6 billion deficit, and further expenditures were determined to be unacceptable.
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