There’s trouble at the dump, and that’s for sure.

Renfrew’s landfill is a happening place, but not as happening as it ought to be, particularly in keeping up with its legislative and policy mandates around the environment.

More than anything else, it’s a staffing issue that presents as the biggest problem, in that the landfill is under-staffed and has been for awhile.  And this shortcoming bites into operational efficiency and also presents as problematic when the fellow working there has to take a day off, go on vacation, or decides to go work somewhere else.

This is not the McDougall Museum, where a choice to close the place would hurt and be a blow to the community, but would be otherwise survivable.  The landfill is something that can’t be closed, so the option of shuttering the place and locking the gate simply isn’t a choice.

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