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It costs about $89.46 per tonne to collect and landfill Ottawa’s trash. At the end of 2004 more than 210,000 tonnes of garbage went to landfill at a cost of $18,829,339. This does not include the monetary and environmental costs of gas build-up and toxic run off created in landfills, or the associated loss of green space.
