WASTE DISPOSAL IN TORONTO

WHERE DID ALL MY WASTE GO?

• Landfills (cause terrible smells and and rain washes out toxins into waterways)
• Incinerator (creates toxic fumes and nano particles
• Waterways (clogs treatment plants and kills marine life)
• Littered on the ground ( un-clean and kills animals that eat it)
• Waste to energy plants (creates heat energy)

WHATS IN MY GARBAGE?

• Refuse (garbage that cannot be reused or recycled)
• Plastic (can be melted and recycled)
• Electronics (can be scavenged for parts and the rest recycled)
• Food items (can be composted at home or at compost centers)

WHAT HAS TORONTO DONE?

• Toronto has introduced a new electronics bin.
• They also added a green bin for food and compostable items
• Created high fines for and people who break the law
• Created 49% waste diversion by 2011
• Set high goals

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• Created waste to energy sites that burn garbage for heat energy
• Compost centres
• Provided citizens with a recycling bin,green bin and electronics bin
• Companies manage their own waste
• Reducing exports of hazardous waste

WHAT BAD THINGS HAS TORONTO DONE?

• Toronto is not monitoring nano particles from incinerators.
• Toronto didn't reach it's goal of 70%waste diversion by 2010, it got 49% by 2011
• They're trying not to let garbage workers go on strike
• New incinerator in GTA
• Eco-fee not being used to pay workers fairly

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• Toronto is shipping all of its waste to the USA
• Some landfills have reached their full capacity such as keele valley
• Toronto's solutions are all short term and do not last very long.

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?

• You can open a simple compost bin in your garden
• You can use reusable bags, because plastic takes years to decompose
• Pick up after yourself and encourage people to reduce,reuse, recycle.
• Buy recyclable products
• Use rechargeable batteries

AWARENESS

• Kids can help with awarness and make posters
• Rallies, posters and commercials prevent littering
• Government ads are taken more seriously
• Directed to the people who create the waste
• Educates people for adulthood

TOXIC CHEMICALS

• Radiation can last for thousands of years when it leaks
• Toxic gasses can kill thousands and are spread by wind across far distances
• Toxins in water kill animals that come into contact with it
• Government is planning to reduce toxic waste export from Canada
• Toxic waste is produced by nuclear power plants

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO

• Open nano-particle monitoring centres for each ward
• Eco-centres for environmentalists to bring in complaints
• All goals must be completed and apology must be given if not
• Garbage cans should be placed every 50-100m
• Garbage fines raised to $3500

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• Gatbage pickup every 2-3 days
• Highly maintained chutes, cans bins and dumpsters
• Eco-fee used to pay workers, make garbage cans and buy garbage trucks
• No garbage trucks within a 500m radius of a school
• No compromise for money and priorities in order

PACKAGING

• Is thrown away right after unpackaging
• Much of the packaging we use goes to landfill or incinerator
• Causes pollution during production and disposal/ incineration
• Makes up a large part of our garbage
• Many items have un-necessary multi layer packaging which is hard to open and pollutes

REUSABLE VARIATIONS

• Plastic bottle------Reusable water bottle
• Plastic bag---------Cloth/fabric bag
• Napkin-------------Hankerchief
• Paper bag----------Lunchbag
• New paper---------GOOS/recycled paper

WHAT IS WASTE?

WHAT EFFECTS DOES WASTE HAVE ON NATURE?

• Incenerator fumes are toxic and kill plants and animals, sometimes people
• Animals can't consume plastic metal or many other manmade materials.
• Waste covers up vast distances in landfills that was once a habitat
• Liquid waste can poison creatures
• Damages the food chain and ecosystems

IN THE END, THE FUTURE OF WASTE IS IN OUR HANDS