Proposed Incinerator Site in Durham Region, Ontario-Facts

[bboots100]

Incinerators are just not a valid answer to waste management. Better and bigger recycling programs are what is needed and this is where our government needs to put their money. My municipality has expanded it's recycling program and I am amazed at how much less garage bag waste our household is producing. But it must go farther. Countries like Germany have had tremendous success with recycling and reusing waste and we should be following their example. The disposable mentality must go!

[jtjjbannie]

A wise man indeed.

[digiroj]

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[darren7678]

My comment IS true though isn't it! Only exception is West Pickering straddling the rouge & all of East Toronto (Meadowvale/Port Union/West Rouge) which has a high abundance of caucasian professionals! Still glad I live in Richmond hill though!

[harryfodder]

They will be filtering the exhaust to get all the particles out. Your right it doesn't dissapear, but would you rather place it in a landfill where it can poison leachate, get to the aquifer and then end up in our lakes over the course of however many years it takes?

I believe that anyone who is opposed to the incinerator and that uses and throws out things such as batteries are hypocrites. Until we can find a solution that is better than incinerating, I think we should just stop complaining.

[peppeddu]

This is going to be bigger than the tobacco mess. Thousands and thousands of people will have to die before the politicians all over realizes that "hey, this thing is toxic!"

[envirosponsible]

Wow darren, you were off to a solid start there-then you lost me with the white trash comment. Your elitist attitude is just as troubling to me as the anti-immigration comment. It's the "us" and "them" mentality that brought about our challenges with waste and environment. This is OUR earth, and pollution doesn't adhere to boundries. Chad

[bboots100]

@envirosponsible You are so on the mark. This our Earth and the responsibility of all.

[darren7678]

Don't blame it on the immigrants.

[darren7678]

On a side note, durham region is overrepresented by white trash and other uneducated and economically underprivileged residents. So take the trash and the waste over there! Keep it out of Richmond Hill.

[KREATIVNML]

You are SO right! When I heard they were thinking about incineration last August, I immediately put my house up for sale and got the HELL outta there! It was bad enough I always felt outta place among all the beer-drinking, white trash bastards, but the coming incinerator was the last straw. I now live in York region.

[darren7678]

Immigration is the source of this country's wealth, human capital, and economic success! Don't pass the buck onto "immigration" because without immigration your country wouldn't be on the global map at all.

[envirosponsible]

I think this issue goes beyond immigration policies, though I agree curbing consumerism is a vital key to the solution.

[canadianbuck77]

First stop immigration, we don't need anymore trash producing consumers.

[PatGostlin]

Incineration is a stupid idea. If we can recycle 70% to 75% of our garbage (Whitby's current rate is 68%) then we get THE SAME amount of residual as with incineration and it's not toxic ash. Plus you save the $300+ million that is not wasted on constructing an incinerator. Let's spend $300 million on recycling and reclaiming.