Newalta Sorting Facilities Moving to Hamilton, ON

Written for Call2Recycle web/newsletter, June 2014

Call2Recycle’s Canadian battery-sorting partner Newalta is in the process of re-locating its national sorting operation from Fort Erie to Hamilton, Ontario. This year, Canadians have already recycled more than one million kilograms of batteries, a 26 per cent increase in collections compared to 2013. The new facility provides more space for sorting operations, as well as the opportunity to upgrade equipment and processes to improve efficiency.

“We applaud the efforts of all Canadians who are accepting their responsibility to ensure batteries are kept out of landfills,” said Joe Zenobio, executive director, Call2Recycle Canada, Inc. “Partnering with environmentally responsible entities such as Newalta is an important part of our recycling program.”

While battery operations continue in Fort Erie in the interim, Newalta expects to transition to the new location by late 2014.

“Newalta has been proud to partner with Call2Recycle for the past several years,” said Michael Jovanovic, General Manager of Ontario Facilities for Newalta. “We are making this significant investment not only to enhance our battery-sorting capabilities in the near-term by adding new, state-of-the-art equipment, but to allow us to grow as Call2Recycle expands its reach in Canada.”

RCBC Zeroes In on Waste

Written for Call2Recycle web/newsletter, June 2014

The luxurious Fairmont Chateau Whistler hotel set in the Canadian Rocky Mountains was the backdrop for the Recycling Council of British Columbia’s (RCBC) annual general meeting and conference last month. 

The event is a great opportunity to catch up with like-minded environmentalists in both public and private sectors.  The RCBC has always had the goal to spearhead extended producer responsibility (EPR) for all relevant industries operating in British Columbia (BC) since 1974.  The event evolved to become a mixture of proposed sustainability strategies along with the best innovations that might become part of RCBC work in the future.

Call2Recycle sponsored an educational session, devoted to resolving the tough sustainability scenarios faced by municipalities in BC.  The rest of the sessions highlighted sustainability best practices, case studies, and proposals for: global EPR schemes; stewardship; youth investment; technology; waste management; and how best to clean up Earth after the oil industry. 

The event also included RCBC’s annual award ceremony.

Sponsoring FCM’s Tour de Force

Written for Call2Recycle web/newsletter, May 2014.

During the first week of July, almost 2,000 cyclists will be snaking their way through the French-speaking countryside in a well-known stage-race.  Among them will be Chris Karambatsos, Andrew Rubin, Luc Chayer, and Philip Swain, collectively representing the FCM Recycling team.  

However, none of this will happen in France.

The two-staged annual Ride to Conquer Cancer  takes place in Montreal and Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.  This charitable event has raised more than $32 million for cancer research across the province since its inception in 2008. In 2013 alone, it raised $6.3 million for specialized cancer therapy services at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.  These funds go towards supporting new technologies in the areas of molecular diagnostics, functional imaging, biomarkers, molecular target discovery and validation, and advanced targeted radiation therapy.

The FCM Recycling team’s goal is to raise $20,000 this year.  “We managed to raise this much last year for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, so we know the target is achievable.  We have less time for fundraising this year but we’re off to a stronger start, and have $6,000 banked already,” explains Karambatsos.

That sum includes a small donation from Call2Recycle as one of many corporate sponsors. FCM Recycling, which specializes in diverting end-of-life electronics and electrical equipment from landfills at six processing facilities across Canada, has collaborated with Call2Recycle for several years and for the last two years, won a coveted “Leader in Sustainability” award.  According to Karambatsos though, neither recycling nor fundraising are likely to be the big issue for 2014: “This winter has been so bad that the guys and I haven’t had much opportunity to train.  We need to make sure we can survive two days of 100km rides, so we’re hoping that spring arrives on-schedule!”

London Drugs Celebrates Earth Month with Recycling Promotion

Written for Call2Recycle web/newsletter, April 2014

April is a month of spring cleaning for many Canadians. Because April is also Earth Month, Canadian retail giant London Drugs thought it would also be the perfect time to encourage recycling.  So throughout April its local stores will accept old electronics, light bulbs, batteries, cellphones and other items for recycling. 

If that isn’t enough, the company also set a stretch goal--doubling the amount of recyclable materials it collects this April over last. This year’s goal is about 104,000 kilograms (230,000 pounds), up from the 52,000 kilograms (114,640 pounds) collected in 2013.

To encourage participation, London Drugs is offering customers who drop off items between April 11-30 a chance to register to win an Energy Efficient Electronics Bundle, which includes a big-screen TV and tablet. They are promoting the program on their website and Twitter feed (@WTGreenDeal).

London Drug has a strong history of recycling.  Since it launched its What’s the Green Deal? program in 2008, the company has collected more than 19 million kilograms (42 million pounds) of recyclable materials. This includes over 1 million kilograms (2.2 million pounds) of electronics and devices. Last year, the company collected 4.5 million kilograms (10 million pounds) of recyclable materials. Call2Recycle has been their long-term partner for both alkaline and rechargeable battery recycling since 2000, collecting over 150,000 kilograms of batteries since program inception.

Call2Recycle Recognizes 2013 Leaders in Sustainability

Written for Call2Recycle web/newsletter, March 2014.

The Call2Recycle offices in Canada and the USA have been awash in cardboard and bubble-wrap for the last few weeks as the team mails out the items for our 2013 “Leaders in Sustainability” recipients.

This will be the third year the awards have been run in Canada and the second year in the USA.  They recognize select organizations for their exemplary participation in the Call2Recycle program, and go to a wide variety of retailers, municipalities, government departments, manufacturers and others organizations both North and South of the border.  

As ever, Call2Recycle would like to congratulate not only this year’s recipients but all organizations that use the Call2Recycle program as their preferred method for keeping batteries out of landfill.  We applaud all of our participants and stewards and thank them for their commitment to the environment.

Destination: Globe 2014

Next month Call2Recycle will host booth #1507 at the renowned “GLOBE” event in Vancouver, British Columbia. 

2014 will mark the 13^th Globe event, run biannually since 1993 when the Globe Foundation was established as a not-for-profit, private, international business foundation, promoting the business case for sustainable development.  Since then, Globe has continued to champion the premise that eco-efficiency is not only viable and preferable, but also profitable.  As such the organisation, and its events, attract a wide variety of audiences from both the public and private sectors, as well as NGOs, non-profits, and of course the environment.

Globe’s last event in 2012 was no exception, and drew almost 10,000 overall participants from 58 different countries.  650 of these were presidents or CEOs, meaning the event is also a favourite amongst business networkers.  This year’s event will likely exceed these stats, and has been designed around eight themes that, internationally, comprise some of the most pertinent environmental issues we face today: The Changing Energy Landscape; Food & Water Security - Protecting our Most Precious Resources; Towards the Circular Economy; Responsible Resource Management; Clean Capitalism - Financing Sustainable Innovation; Building Resilient Cities; China – Our Shared Future; The Aboriginal Advantage.  

Globe 2014 will be at the Vancouver Convention Centre, 26-28 March.

Promoting battery recycling wins Winnipeg Public Library a community bike rack

Written for Call2Recycle web/newsletter, December 2013

For Waste Reduction Week 2013, Call2Recycle^® partnered with Winnipeg Public Library to raise awareness of our battery recycling program.  From October 21-27 all branches of Winnipeg Public Library competed to see which one could collect the most weight in spent batteries and used cellphones in seven days, earning the title of Winnipeg’s “Waste Ace”.

To make sure that people in Winnipeg were aware of Waste Reduction Week and the Call2Recycle program, staff in each of the branches unleashed their creativity by building eye-catching in-library displays and signage.  From Pembina Trail to West Kildonan and Westwood to Transcona, giant-sized AA batteries and other signage appeared hanging from the ceiling, Hallowe’en undead sought batteries from the living, and some library-goers were even greeted with battery requests from the characters of Star Wars. 

Both Call2Recycle and Winnipeg Public Library maintained chatter on Facebook and Twitter throughout the week.  This, combined with the displays and other promotional activity, got the message across to Winnipeggers.  By the end of the week more than 3,000 kg of batteries and cellphones had been collected.  That’s the weight of almost eight horses.  “The Winnipeg Waste Ace competition is a testimony to the power of communities,” explains Orysia Boytchuk, Marketing Director, Call2Recycle.  “The library did a great job in rallying the entire city behind battery recycling, and the entire city will benefit as a result.  It’s amazing what they managed to accomplish in such a short time.”

At the end of the week it was the community from St. Vital who triumphed, collecting 471 kg of batteries and used cellphones at their library branch.  Louis Riel Library came second with 412 kg and River Heights Library third with 309 kg.  As the winning branch, St. Vital Library got to choose the prize Call2Recycle would deliver.  After considering the needs of the local community, the team there elected to have Call2Recycle purchase a new bike rack for the library.  St. Vital Councillor Brian Mayes responded, "I would like to congratulate those who contributed to the Call2Recyle initiative by bringing in enough battery material to the St. Vital Library to garner a new bike rack that will be used by the many patrons who visit our branch."  

Rick Walker, Manager of Library Services, Winnipeg Public Library added, “The St. Vital Library has been well used by the residents of the community for over 50 years.  It’s been one of our busier branches since opening in 1963, loaning over 220,000 items annually. It is not surprising that this environmentally-conscious community would finish first in this competition, and it will be great to have a new bike rack that encourages visitors to ride their bike to the library rather than drive.”  The new bike rack will be delivered to St. Vital Library in time for spring 2014 bike riding and will serve the community for years to come.

Although Waste Reduction Week has now ended for 2013, Winnipeg Public Library continues to collect for the Call2Recycle program year-round at all 20 branches.  Call2Recycle accepts household batteries (weighing up to 5 kg) and used cellphones (any make, model, or age).  To find the drop-off location nearest you, visit our online locator or call 888.224.9764.

Even Moore Investment in Canadian Youth

Written for Call2Recycle web/newsletter, December 2013.

As you read this article, it will likely be minus 20 degrees Celsius and snowy in the small Canadian town of Lloydminster, about halfway between Edmonton and Saskatoon.  Lloydminster has the peculiar claim of being in both the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan at the same time, since the town is built directly on the East-West provincial border.

Similarly, on the cusp between November and December the town hosts the “Boundary Ford Curling Classic” event, drawing 24 teams internationally to compete for $24,000 in prize money.  It’s the third womens’ team event in the Asham World Curling Tour this year, and among those competing on the tour will be Team Moore, a womens’ curling team of four that Call2Recycle® is proudly sponsoring for the season.  Kristie Moore, Sarah Wilkes, Ashleigh Clark, and Kyla MacLachlan are competing over the four-month season for not only prize money but also for Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) points.  These will decide whether the team  qualifies for the ‘Scotties Tournament of Hearts’ provincial playdown in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, in January 2014.

“We’re very grateful to Call2Recycle for its sponsorship,” explains Sarah Wilkes, team third.  “Although curling is very popular in Canada, amateur teams like ours still have to pay for accommodation during events and the flights to get there before we’ve even picked up a broom or a stone.  Just this season will likely cost $3,500 in entry fees alone.  Without sponsorship, there would be no Team Moore.”

Winnipeg Libraries Battle for Batteries in Waste Reduction Week

Written for Call2Recycle web/newsletter, October 2013

There has been a week for reducing waste in Canada since the mid-1980s, although it wasn’t until 2001 that ‘the week’ evolved from a loose collaboration between like-minded councils and environmental organisations into a branded national initiative.  Today, Waste Reduction Week has become an annual event whose organisers and participants include schools, businesses, non-profits, individuals and government departments from each of the 13 participating provincial and territorial jurisdictions across Canada.

It’s fair to say that the organisers and volunteers behind the week have come a long way from those early days in terms of identifying potential environmental projects.  In 2012 for example: schools held waste-free lunches; communities conducted special recycling collection activities; and one organisation even had a "Re-Funk Your Junk" contest.

This year, from the 21^st to 27^th October, Call2Recycle will collaborate with Winnipeg Public Libraries to promote Waste Reduction Week amongst the people of Manitoba’s capital city.  All 19 branches will be rallying residents to drop off their used batteries and cellphones into a permanent Call2Recycle collection box as they indulge in a friendly competition.  The branch that collects the most during Waste Reduction Week will be named Winnipeg’s “Waste Ace” and awarded a community prize.  However, as long as the people using each library participate, then it could be argued far more easily that all participants are winners.  

Stay tuned for an update! In the meantime for more details, click here.

Learning to be Income Tax Savvy

Published on solomag.ca, June 2009.

Income tax time came and went and we’re happy to have another year ahead of us before we have to start thinking about it again. Or do we? Perhaps we should be thinking about it in advance so that it isn’t such an odious task. By knowing a few ins and outs, tax time can be a lot less stressful come next spring!

Tax. It’s a horrible word, and mentioning tax returns in front of any Canadian often incurs eye-rolling, tutting, and a resigned sigh about yet another thing on the to-do list. But, imagine if the federal government suddenly ceased referring to “tax returns” and began to use the term, “free money” instead?

As Cleo Hamel, senior tax analyst for H&R Block says cheerfully: “Tax is bad enough, but why would you sit back and give the government more than you have to?”

It seems like a rhetorical, almost condescending question. But I’m more than happy to take that from the woman tasked with reading the federal budget every time the government publishes one.

Hamel’s role at H&R Block is precisely that, and with the ongoing objective of – amongst other things - identifying where and how Canadians can claim for every single tax-deductable cent that’s up for grabs.

So why am I telling you about tax in June? Well, the majority of tax-related consumer stories, published often in March or April, don’t help much. One month’s notice isn’t enough when you realize the scraps of paper you need to find in the next 28 days are on the dresser, in the car, in the closet, in your desk drawer at work, incommunicado, or already long gone to that same parallel universe where missing socks and the cable controller go. And, if the recession already has you shying away from Starbucks in favour of home brew, or considering cutting your own hair, then can you really afford to say ‘no’ to potentially thousands of dollars?

Yes, thousands. “As a rule of thumb, your tax return should always be within $100 either way”, explains Hamel. However, there are specific situations in life that may cause you to be taxed incorrectly, that is to say over-taxed.

That’s right, you could be paying too much right now, as you read this. And you can get it all back.

“The key is to be very thorough,” says Hamel. “There isn’t a solitary, windfall payment available but the Tax Act basically encourages people to take back more in return for claiming more.”

So how do you know whether you’re one of the lucky ones? The cool news is that the majority of people are. Are you working? Saving any money at all? Been ill lately? Got a house or kids? Best of all, have you been spending money moonlighting in your dream job whilst putting in the 9-5 grind in your beige, Dilbert-style cubicle? Then there is money for you.

Check out solomag.ca over the next few issues to for more tips on how to get more and give less. In the meantime, go find yourself an empty shoe box. Don’t have one? Time for a new pair of shoes!

Delightful house built on bedrock of positivity

Do not trust the man whose pay-check depends on you taking his advice. Al Gore said similar during “An Inconvenient Truth” and the same thought occurred to me as I leafed through a discarded ‘dream’ houses and condos supplement on the 506 streetcar towards the East end. Doom and gloom sells newspapers, but here was realtor after realtor, lining up to enthuse about the property market in Toronto. I guess whether you’re a glass half-empty or glass half-full kinda person dictates who you believe – realtor, or politician?

Not much of a choice between them though – a clash of the ‘liar’ titans one might even be tempted to say.

And so a similar clash of the titans between full and empty began. The cynical, jaded writer versus the self-made entrepreneur 10 years his junior. To be honest, I didn’t expect to hear such good news for house music lovers when I interviewed Lindi Delight Masunda. After all, regardless of how hedonistic you might be, are you really going to go out and party if you can’t make the mortgage payment?

However, not content with creating – to my knowledge at least – one of the first deep house-specific nights in downtown Toronto, the entrepreneur described predominantly as “positive” on Facebook hopes to be promoting Canadian DJ talent internationally, to add philanthropy to her already successful “TenaciouSoul” venture, and to launch a website that enables anyone else to do what she’s doing…all before the end of 2009.

In addition to TenaciouSoul, managing Canadian DJs to get them on the global map and out of the Great White North, and teaming up with a selection of womens’ charities, her website is planned to be a proverbial online directory of bartenders, DJs, security staff, sound and lighting technicians, plus whatever else you can think of to throw a mini-rave of your own. Oh – and she’s going to learn to DJ herself too. Well, it is only January I guess, but then this is a 27 year-old who gets fidgety if she’s not doing umpteen things at once. “I need variety,” she grins from the other side of a pint.

I suppose it’s not surprising for someone who graduated in electronics & telecommunications on the West coast, and then turned up as the brains behind TenaciouSoul – which isn’t even her day job – on the East coast some years later. “I believe in fate,” says Masunda. “My last night in Toronto before flying back to Vancouver for good, I walked into a bar and asked the manager there if I could help out. He asked me whether I had bartending experience, I said yes, and that was that. I was working in there the next evening as my empty seat on the plane headed West.”

We’re now six-and-a-half years down the road.

Perhaps that puts Masunda’s ambitions into perspective, although she hasn’t been at the single-handed event management and promotions game for all that time. “I decided in about March 2006 that I wanted to throw parties,” she explains. “I was doing it all myself, which made it hard work but also meant that there was no-one around to tell me I shouldn’t do it, or that I was doing it wrong!” And that’s how it went for a year or two. No qualifications, no training, no sponsorship, no grants, no loans, no counsel, no helpline, nothing: “I’ve learned the hard way over the last two-and-a-half years, but I’ve learned fast too. Now I feel more like I’m coming into my own as a promoter, improving my focus, and – at the same time - getting to know myself better as a woman.”

Masunda steals off to the bathroom mid-interview, giving me time to reflect. She’s confident, yes, but not arrogantly so. She’s decidedly cheerful, and the persistent “positive” description from Facebook is being slowly but surely being put into context. She’s going to be one of those people who makes you feel good after you’ve spoken to them. Maybe that’s why Joel Smye, the owner of ‘Footwork’ on Adelaide West, agreed to let her single-handedly promote a Robsoul Recordings night there. Masunda achieved this with good old-fashioned person-to-person networking, via the DJ Phil Weekes, and proceeded to complete the flyers, promotion, and even the guest list for that evening. Needless to say it was a tremendous success, so successful in fact that Robsoul Recordings retained Masunda’s services for the rest of that month, and their other planned gigs.

She’s back, and a simple question I missed occurs to me: “Why deep house in particular, and why ‘TenaciouSoul’?”

“I have to promote something I’m passionate about,” she smiles. “I live and breathe house music. It’s what I wake up to in the morning, and what I go to bed at night to.”

“I didn’t know what to do about a company name. So, I just made two columns of different words that I wanted the music to feel like. I came up with various combinations before TenaciouSoul, but couldn’t believe my luck when I Google’d it and found the company name wasn’t already registered somewhere.”

What does TenaciouSoul the brand actually mean though? For once, Masunda has trouble articulating: “It’s sexy, sensual, classily-dressed women in afros…” But, there’s more to it than that, as the emphatic feedback on Facebook demonstrates. Were TenaciouSoul the end of a battery then it’d obviously be positive. If a car, then imagine a Volkswagen Beetle with a subtle, stylish paint job, and understated but cool chrome rims. Why? Because – like the DJs and music choices that go into each of the gigs – they’re known globally, vehemently reliable, and potentially iconic. However, whilst the bug would definitely be souped-up, it would still be approachable somehow, most likely packed with 20 and 30-somethings, picking up willing hitch-hikers to take them to a festival somewhere. Most of all, there would be no tinted windows. There’s nothing aloof about Masunda or the gigs she crafts, so the only hidden aspect of this particular Volkswagen would be the punching-above-its-weight, hand-tooled power station lurking under the hood.

After all, Masunda has already managed to secure a couple of all-time DJ debuts for Toronto clubbers, most notably perhaps John “Jellybean” Benitez – a name old enough for even me to recognise from a high school disco. Jellybean has had his hands on everything from Madonna’s debut album in 1982, through the Pointer Sisters, the soundtrack to “Flashdance”, Fleetwood Mac, to Sting, and even Whitney Houston in 2000 (remember her before she met Bobby Brown?). It also took her less than two years of promotions to persuade Groove Assassins to come to town for the first time.

I bet that was a good night.

Then there’s Masunda’s ability to persuade DJs to play outside of their typical genre (imagine lifting the hood of said Volkswagen to find a Kawasaki or Sherman tank engine inside). DJ Sneak is best known for a raw, minimal, percussive-almost-dub style house, championed by the likes of Trade in London, UK. DJ Aleksandra doesn’t often stray far from techno. However, both were persuaded to play an out-of-character deep house set for the TenaciouSoul regulars, and both were enormously successful nights. This, combined with Masunda’s method of briefing DJs for their sets is what makes describing the TenaciouSoul vibe so tricky. OK, so we’ve got afros, but then imagine DJs whose only guidance is to, “…play from the heart,” as Masunda puts it. “I wouldn’t expect to have to brief a DJ anyway,” she insists. “It’s their job to figure out whether the crowd is feeling a particular tune, and change it up a bit if it’s not working.” Maybe if TenaciouSoul were a proverb, it’d be, “Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know whatcha gonna git.”

I digress.

Picking a company name was the easy part. What followed was the administrative hard graft: getting business cards organised; striking deals; balancing everything with the needs of the day job; painting more than 300 front door keys and attaching a label with the gig details instead of using paper flyers; and networking. Lots of networking. It paid off though, with Masunda running into Eddy K of YYZ Entertainment in early 2006. This gave her the necessary backing to be able to host a night of her own, but she still needed DJs.

“I spent ages familiarising myself with the local DJ talent, scouring online, collecting cards, and asking people for recommendations,” she recalls. “From these I chose DJ Dirty Dale, most of all for his sound, which I felt fitted the TenaciouSoul ideal. It didn’t go smoothly though! The first time I met him he just told me to call him back in the morning if I was still serious!” Through Masunda’s persistence, things worked out though. Jason Ulrich was later secured for the warm-up set at TenaciouSoul’s maiden musical voyage, a humble but packed-to-the-rafters loft at Queen and Spadina in May 2006.

This strikes me as one of those times when you review your resume and think, “Sheesh, did I really do all that?” But there’s still more to come. Each new gig requires another reinvention of the humble flyer and fresh DJ talent for the growing Toronto house scene. Thankfully some things stay the same though. “One thing I’ve learned is that you have to work with people you trust,” states Masunda, possibly in her most serious tone of voice all day. “I have a core list of experienced and reliable suppliers that I go back to time and time again – sound, talent, logistics, work permits, bartenders, security – everything you can think of.”

I suppose if one has trust, then one can relax. And, although Masunda admits to, “…feeling tense until the room is full,” each time she promotes a night, by that point the necessary hard work has already been done. Thus the punters can also relax, which is probably why TenaciouSoul has already become something typically Toronto – relaxed, multicultural, but with a sense of pride that demands attention over the noisy neighbour to the South. In her words, “The music is key. TenaciouSoul is all about having somewhere to go where people can experience a musical journey and forget their worries for a night.”

I guess some houses may vary in price, but well-chosen house is always priceless. Put a value on it yourself at Footwork on 7th March 2009 when TenaciouSoul will be hosting DJ Heather and Colette.

Five cent fine on wastrels the first step in a social change marathon

Wannabe environmentalists such as I, who are tempted to celebrate Loblaw’s announcement this week that it will charge shoppers five cents per plastic bag, may have to put the bubbly back in the fridge.

I know that corporations in general are worse polluters than consumers, but there’s a difference between landfill litter and other weapons in the polluter’s armoury. The City of Toronto told me on Wednesday that shopping bags akin to Loblaws’ make up only a proportion of one type of litter collected from the streets of Toronto, which in turn accounts for only 27 per cent of annual Toronto litter.

I shouldn’t disparage the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee though. With 44,000 cubic metres of landfill-bound rubbish yearly, it has – literally – a mountain to climb, albeit an underground one. Unfortunately the real culprits, all 3,000,000+ of them, are much closer to home. Actually, they’re in the home – mine and everyone else’s in the GTA. The majority of that 27 per cent is from a grubby smorgasbord of retail and non-retail items that, when put together, spell fast food packaging. What annoys me even more is that a significant proportion of them are plastic bottles and jars that could have been recycled, if the previous owner had managed to carry them that marathon distance to the nearest garbage bin, and mustered the staggering concentration required to pick the correct hole of the three. As I discovered, once whatever-it-is hits the street, then the city has to regard it as “contaminated,” and it goes the way of the bubblegum and everything else.

Thus I don’t make myself very popular giving people the ‘hairy eyeball’ when they grumble that there’s no school close enough to them for their first-born, that the ambulance should have arrived one minute sooner, or that there’s a massive power outage on the West side of Toronto. I just quietly wonder how many schools, hospitals, or power stations could be bought with the $20,000,000 that the city wastes every year clearing up after Torontonians.