Private garbage collection continues in Toronto despite rising costs

Private garbage collection continues in Toronto despite rising costs

November 12, 2021 5:34 pm EST.

City council voted to award a new waste contract for Etobicoke to GFL Environmental at it's latest meeting. Mark McAllister explains why the rising cost of private collection had councillors talking trash.

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