Do you know where your garbage goes?

Do you want to know where your garbage goes? Did you know that Quebec produces more garbage per person than any other province?

The junk that is picked up in Montreal, Laval, Lanaudière, the Laurentians and the Montérégie end up in landfill in Lachenaie (Terrebonne). By reducing what you put to the garbage, and recycle more, we can divert from Landfill.

Here is an old article written by enviromontreal.com:
“Every granola bar wrapper, every piece of Styrofoam packaging, every item that I throw into my garbage can ends up here, crushed and buried. It sits here, forever.
Between 500 and 700 trucks dump their loads each day, five and a half days a week. Week after week. Year after year. At the current rate, the Lachenaie site will be full in about 15 years.
Most of the site was surprisingly clean and not even smelly. But as our bus rolled through about 2 km of small hills, Chulak reminded us, Under those hills, that’s all garbage. It can go up to 12 m deep and 40 m high. Between 500 and 700 trucks dump their loads each day, five and a half days a week. Week after week. Year after year. At the current rate, the Lachenaie site will be full in about 15 years.”

To read more: https://enviromontreal.com/…/a-visit-to-where-our-garbage-…/