Ontario could run out of landfill space in nine years. Then what?

The Narwhal "Ontario could run out of landfill space in nine years. Then what?"

Reporter: Fatima Syed

Published: April 8, 2024

"Industries, businesses and institutions make two-thirds of Ontario's garbage. It's too easy for them to dump, burn and export instead of reduce, reuse and recycle. 

Ontario's garbage is making headlines again as a small farming town tries to ward off a large construction company's efforts to revive and expand a dormant landfill site. 

Residents of Dresden, a town of 2,401 people in southwestern Ontario, are staunchly opposed to a proposal that would reopen the landfill – right on the edge of town – and increase its size by dozens of football fields. The town's city council has written of its opposition to the provincial environment minister, and its mayor told the London Free Press he has texted Premier Doug Ford. ..." 

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