It’s a grey, wet October day at the landfill in Greater Sudbury in northern Ontario, and the hazy conditions have attracted colonies of seagulls and eagles in search of food to the area.
Standing on top of some 30 years worth of garbage, landfill manager Aziz Rehman eyes a pile of mattresses waiting to be handled by the trucks that process incoming trash.
A business case for a mattress recycling program is before Greater Sudbury city councillors this year as they head into budget deliberations.
Like many of the smaller and more rural cities in Ontario, Greater Sudbury does not have enough of a population to sustain a viable private mattress recycling facility.
In a statement to CBC News, Gary Wheeler, a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, says there are no “currently defined timelines” for when its producer responsibility regulations might apply to mattresses.
Calvin Lakhan, a postdoctoral researcher and co-investigator of the Waste Wiki project at Toronto’s York University, says the province is lagging behind on this because it does not consider mattresses to be a high waste-management priority.
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It’s a grey, wet October day at the landfill in Greater Sudbury in northern Ontario, and the hazy conditions have attracted colonies of seagulls and eagles in search of food to the area.
Standing on top of some 30 years worth of garbage, landfill manager Aziz Rehman eyes a pile of mattresses waiting to be handled by the trucks that process incoming trash.
A business case for a mattress recycling program is before Greater Sudbury city councillors this year as they head into budget deliberations.
Like many of the smaller and more rural cities in Ontario, Greater Sudbury does not have enough of a population to sustain a viable private mattress recycling facility.
In a statement to CBC News, Gary Wheeler, a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, says there are no “currently defined timelines” for when its producer responsibility regulations might apply to mattresses.
Calvin Lakhan, a postdoctoral researcher and co-investigator of the Waste Wiki project at Toronto’s York University, says the province is lagging behind on this because it does not consider mattresses to be a high waste-management priority.
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