Toronto garbage: Rob Ford's interest in shifting towards incineration

I find it absolutely astounding that after the hefty purchase of Green Lane Landfill, Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, expresses keen interest in shifting towards waste-to-energy methods of waste disposal:

“But as you know, 70 per cent of the world already has some sort of method in place that they turn their garbage into energy. They make money on their garbage.

“I’ve always said that garbage is money: when you see truckloads of garbage going down the 401, it’s like truckloads of $100 bills. We have to turn that garbage into money.”

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