AT THE VERY START of the millennium, the City Councillors Waste Diversion Task Force committed themselves to reducing Toronto’s solid waste production to absolute zero by the year 2010. But two years ago, having failed to ramp up the recycling program to appropriate levels, City Council disappointingly revised its own goals downward and resolved themselves to reducing Toronto’s solid waste production to only thirty per cent by 2010. Bay Street bureaucrats sift through the statistics and juggle the numbers in order to put the best possible face on a dirty dilemma. Meanwhile, garbage collectors go on strike this week, and the termination of Toronto’s contract with the Michigan landfill looms on the horizon mere months away.

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