Deforest City Blues: We need mandatory bus tours to the landfill site

London’s pile of garbage, though not as tall as New York City’s (on a clear day you can smell for miles), will one day be taller than the lovely grass-covered mounds of earth that surround it - and completely visible to the naked eye.

It will then become a great educational tool.

“Where’s that smell coming from, Daddy?”

“From over there, Billy. See that mountain of trash surrounded by seagulls?”

Because we each produce 900 pounds of trash per year (over 50 pounds higher than the Ontario average) we should:


["Singin' the Garbage Can Blues": photo link]

reduce overall consumption asap

pay a small fee for each bag of trash

direct the above fee to reuse-recycling depots

take a tour of our landfill site

hear monthly ‘recycling’ updates on the evening news

E.g., “This just in. Oil up. Gold down. Recycling up by 1 per cent. Garbage down by 2 pounds. Now over to Jay for weather.”

Until we see it, smell it, hear more about it and pay more to dispose of it, Deforest City will keep singin’ the garbage can blues.

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$1.00 per bag sound about right to you?

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