Correction: NOT in Your Backyard

Where a city’s garbage is disposed of can be a tense political and environmental issue. Along the US – Canadian border, it’s further complicated by waste acceptance agreements between facilities on either side; agreements that may be canceled if national diplomatic relations change. To clarify its strategy for waste allocation and its readiness for change, and to correct erroneously published information about moving Toronto’s municipal waste to sites near Ottawa, Waste Management Inc. has issued a press release (see the “continued” link below).