Cape Breton puts trash on tracks
CAPE BRETON, N.S. — Councilors for Cape Breton Regional Municipality have voted to take city trash off the highway and put in on tracks.
According to the Chronicle-Herald, transporting the garbage from Sydney to a transfer station in Havre Boucher will cost — more — about $2.36 million annually. From there it will be hauled by truck a shorter distance to a landfill in Guysborough County.
The decision comes less than two weeks before the municipality is due to shut down its solid-waste incinerator, the newspaper reports.
Councilors said they switched to rail because it will help out the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway by utilizing 22 percent of railcar capacity.
— from the Chronicle-Herald
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