Why doesn’t Ontario have enough landfill capacity to service its population?
Ontario’s population increases at a high rate because Canada allows a lot of people to immigrate each year. It also has a strict, lengthy, and complicated process of allowing landfills to become operational. Ontario takes an average of 11 years to get a new landfill up and operating, as opposed to 3 years here. Does Ontario have plans on the drawing board that will reduce the amount of trash coming to Michigan? Ontario is continually increasing the amount of trash that is pre-sorted and then recycled, where it can be disposed of without having to put it in landfills. On the other hand, Ontario landfills are rapidly filling up, plus the total quantity of trash produced keeps rising. Projections show that the net effect is that Ontario will be trying to export more trash to the USA, not less, for the foreseeable future. What are some of the proposals to stop Ontario from dumping so much of its trash in Michigan? Republicans have said they want to place a ban on Canadian trash coming into
