CBC News headline: Disposing of a mattress is ridiculously hard. So is the wider struggle to manage waste. Article link
"Questions over who should bear costs linger as Ontario lags behind recycling targets.
It's a grey, wet October day at the landfill in Greater Sudbury in northern Ontario, and the hazy conditions have attracted colonies of seagulls and eagles in search of food to the area.
Standing on top of some 30 years worth of garbage, landfill manager Aziz Rehman eyes a pile of mattresses waiting to be handled by the trucks that process incoming trash.
'Everybody working in a landfill hates mattresses,' says Rehman."
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