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The Ontario Waste Management Association, which represents companies including BFI Canada and Canadian Waste Services, doesn’t share Mayor Mel’s dream of diverting all of Toronto’s solid waste from landfill by 2010. The industry told the city’s diversion task force last spring that 100-per-cent diversion is “not achievable,” and that even 60- to 70-per-cent diversion is “unlikely.” This wouldn’t have anything to do with a certain northern open-pit mine, would it?

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