For more than a decade the city of Toronto has been searching for a suitable
long-term location for its garbage. Now, Canada’s largest city, has decided
that rather than finding places to bury its garbage, it will simply stop
producing trash. Toronto’s government has declared it will become a zero
waste city by the year 2010. Great Lakes Radio Consortium commentator
Suzanne Elston says that for a city with Toronto’s reputation, reaching a
zero waste goal would be nothing short of a miracle: