GREEN NEWS * USA - Senators Target Cross-border Trash Trucking

Michigan’s Levin, Stabenow applaud end of city waste shipments from Ontario

Lansing,Michigan,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Jan 18, 2011: -- Michigan is trashing one type of cross-border trucking — the hauling of waste from Toronto and other Canadian cities to the Great Lake State... Ontario stopped hauling municipal waste to Michigan Dec. 31, ending a long battle with the state and its U.S. senators, Democrats Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow... Levin and Stabenow negotiated an agreement with Ontario in 2006 that phased out municipal waste shipments to Michigan over four years, ending in 2010... The agreement stops 40,000 trash trucks from hauling 1.5 million tons of city waste a year from the Canadian province to Michigan, according to the senators... The battle now shifts to non-municipal waste from private industry and other sources still trucked from Canada to Michigan landfills, they said... (Photo from bjbear: Truck transportation of waste from Toronto to Michigan)