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[RobA]

>OntarioVanMan, there might be an opportunity here.
>
>, one with a straight truck
>or van and one with a bus might do OK for themselves;
>organizing shopping trips with people on the bus and their
>purchased goods on the truck. Minnesota's Mall of America is
>not so far away. Only, have fun at customs.

There lies the rub!
You must be out of the country for 48 hours to qualify for 200.00 worth of duty free merchandise.
Anything less in time; and it's dutiable and GST and provincial sales is collected too.
A bottle of hooch over the limit?
ha ha ha
try 200% duty and taxes. (that is just a guess; the rates of duties and taxes on spirits are complex)

 

[RobA]

>As I understand it, Michigan wanted to quit taking garbage
>from Canada and other states, but they were told that that
>would interfere with interstate commerce (waste is an
>article of interstate commerce, and it is Congress that
>regulates interstate commerce), so they had to keep on
>taking it. Too funny. I do know that there is a lot of
>garbage from as far away as Florida that goes to Michigan.
>Only PA and VA import more garbage.


It's amusing to those not from Michigan, but for those who
are, you need to see this. The infamous
Trash-O-Meter.

http://www.trash-o-meter.com/trash-o-meter2.swf

Ummm; I believe that Toronto has agreed to lessen their exports of garbage to Michigan and cease in a few years. Toronto has purchased a site near London Ontario for a land fill.
Anyways; Republic Industries are making a P*ss Pot of money off this deal. Michigan was a "welcoming host" when the contract was signed.
Your complaint should be with the Michigan authorities who agreed to Republic's contract.
Wilsons Logistics got fed up trying to haul garbage at the agreed rate after 9-11 and the border tie ups. They gave up the contract and Republic took it over and subcontracted it out. Look at the type of trucks hauling the stuff now.
I have never agreed with the concept of exporting garbage.
It is, however, a valid and legal business and contract.

 

[greg334]

"Your complaint should be with the Michigan authorities who agreed to Republic's contract."

Rob, yes that is who I blame, I don't blame Canada or Toronto but the people who are elected here.

But from what I understand Toronto did tenitive agree with the senators from Michigan to reduce the amount they send but nothing has indicated that this has actually happened. Beside the congress can put a quick stop to all of it if they want.

 

[Turtle]

"Your complaint should be with the Michigan authorities who agreed to Republic's contract."

My complaint? I wasn't complaining, I was commenting. There's a difference.

I could care less either way. I don't even live in Michigan.

Kentucky, where I live, has its own set of garbage follies. They're just as funny. Among many, there's a battle between coal and garbage converted for power generation, and how the regulations should apply differently to the same exact garbage in rail cars depending on if it's headed for the landfill or to the coal plants.

I just think it's funny that a state would actually import landfill garbage for profit, knowing that land is the one thing they ain't makin' any more of.


For those interested in a wholly uninteresting, yet fascinating report on the State of Garbage in America, I submit to you the 43-page 15th annual Nationwide Survey of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States Report, conducted by BioCycle and the Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University.

http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/wtert/sofos/Simmons_SOG06.pdf

Buried about half way down (page 32) is the table that lists the amount of waste that is imported and exported by each state. The report shows who much garbage is being recycled, converted into energy, and placed into landfills.

It's riveting stuff.

Did you know that garbage and trash are not the same thing?

Garbage is specifically discarded food, while trash is worthless material, of all kinds, to be disposed, which also includes debris, which is anything that has been destroyed and/or broken up into pieces. The original meaning of garbage was literally the a handful of entrails, giblets of a fowl, and discarded parts of an animal. (I know this from my chef days). People confused the word garbage with garble (people confused a lot of words back the 15th century) in the garbled sense that the Middle English garbelen meant to sift or sieve or otherwise remove (refuse) unwanted pieces of stuff from spices. And thus [i[refuse[/i] was added to the definition of garbage and means all discarded food, as well.


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