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Trash talk: A look at garbage around Greater Victoria

Region making gains in diverting recyclables
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More Greater Victoria residents are thinking twice before tossing recyclables into their trash cans. But there is still a pressing need to extend the life of Hartland Landfill beyond the next 30 years. The News sifts through the garbage heap to find out how the region is tackling its waste.

Like clockwork, Allan Cheaney awaits his turn to tip the contents of his service truck into the waiting tractor trailer.

He has to speak loudly over the roar of municipal garbage trucks that have congregated at the City of Victoria transfer station where every day is garbage day.

It’s Cheaney’s job to gather up the oddities that are found on city streets – unwanted furniture and mattresses, broken glass, spilled fluids and even animal carcasses – and bring them here to be hauled away to Hartland Landfill in Saanich.

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