Thanx.

BTW, I never told you about the accordion guy who plays at the subway station by work. Long before I ever saw your picture, I thought, “hey, could this be the accordion guy?”

Not being a complete nerd, I didn’t ask him that. Instead I asked him if he had a website. He looked at me strangely and said “no”. So I knew he wasn’t you.

I know, has nothing to do with the post.

That was my first reaction too… but i guess this isn’t a dump, it’s a transfer station. The garbage gets transferred someplace far away where land is cheap.

Toronto has an area of something like 7000 square kilometers. Ontario is like 900000km^2. Landfill for all Ontario’s population for the next decade would take up maybe 10km^2 at the most. If only 10% of the area of ontario is sufficiently easy to get to (compared to shipping your garbage to Michigan, say), you’re still talking less than .001% of the land area of Canada’s most populous province to eat up all the garbage. Considering how much space is devoted to strip malls, I’d say garbage gets way more than its fair share of attention as an environmental problem.

I feel better about at least attempting to recycle my hardware then dropping it off at the dump.

Some of the stuff was still good, so I told them as much and they didn’t burry it under other recyclables.

I know more about municipal waste disposal than you’d expect thanks to my work in a certain city councillor’s office

Jane K

(from Arizona, where the trash goes into great big holes in the ground, gets an extra heavy layer of dirt when the hole is full, and golf courses and parks planted on top while the trash settles for the next thirty years or so)

— Bruce A.

–cynthia

–Ani