Saturday, 11 August 2012

Vintage Garbage

Some Torontonians are making a stink (pun!) about Mayor Ford's privatization of garbage collection in the city.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/clock-ticking-for-private-garbage-collector-to-clean-up-its-act/article4476163/

With this in mind I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the garbage of yore- how did our forefathers in Toronto deal with the perpetual problem of trash? Hint: they dealt with it with style.






Garbage collection on Toronto Island


1950s fleet




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