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Trash Troubles Graphic
Not a single municipality surveyed by Metroland is hitting its waste diversion target, despite ambitious plans. Landlls are overowing, causing problems.
DISPOSAL FACILITY
Barrie Landll Modern Landll Inc. Brock Landll Green Lane Landll Halton Waste Mgmt. Site Glanbrook Landll Laxton Digby Longford Landll Eldon Landll Somerville Landll Fenelon Landll Lindsay/OPS Landll
LOCATION
Barrie Model City, NY Brock St. Thomas Milton Hamilton Norland Kirkeld Burnt River Cameron Lindsay Gravenhurst Huntsville Welland West Lincoln Niagara Falls Brighton Campbellford Ottawa Watford Peterborough Peterborough Simcoe Simcoe Simcoe Waterloo Niagara Falls Massachusetts St. Thomas
Muskoka
48.36%
60% by 2012
23 years (Bracebridge takes waste after Gravenhurst and Stisted close within 6 years) 35 years (Humberstone will reach capacity in 2016) 5 years 19 years 23 years 17 years (1 section to close in August) 17 years (1 section to close in August) 6 years left for 3 of Simcoes landlls 19 years 13 years
Niagara
43.99%
65% by 2012
No target (Under review)* 40% by 2012 70% by 2016 50% (Under review)* 50% (Under review)* 71% by 2020
Brighton Landll Seymour Landll Trail Waste Facility Twin Creeks Sanitary Landll Peterborough County/City Waste Management Facility Peterborough County/City Waste Management Facility Oro Landll Tosorontio Nottawasaga
50.57% 56.99%
Waterloo Waste Mgmt. Site Niagara Waste Systems WeCare Organics Green Lane Landll (contingency site)
*Under review indicates that the municipality is in the process of developing or updating their waste management master plan with a new diversion target to be established. SOURCES: WASTE DIVERSION ONTARIO 2009 STATISTICS, THE MUNICIPALITIES Thana Dharmarajah, Donald Campbell, Dean Tweed // THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR