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Foot Found In New York Recycling Plant Possibly From Toronto Garbage
Seneca, NY (AHN) – New York police officers are investigating how a foot severed above the right ankle ended up at the Casella Recycling transfer station in Seneca, New York. Among the theories being studied is that the foot might have originated from Toronto, where piles of uncollected garbage, due to a strike, accumulated.
The police theory is that the foot arrived between July 29 and Aug. 3, which was about the time Toronto city workers lifted their six-week strike and started to collect the city’s trash. For that six-day period 136 garbage trucks dumped their contents at the Casella station, mostly from 15 counties from New York.
However, New York’s Ontario County sheriff Philip Povero said the trash has distinctly Canadian characteristics. Casella vice president Joseph Fusco confirmed that for the past two weeks tons of Toronto garbage were delivered to their facility.
With Toronto still recovering from the job walk-off, there are reports that residents are mixing recycle trash with organic waste and that garbage collectors are collecting the mixed lot. Toronto Solid Waste Department head Geoff Rathbone denied the report.
According to city hall, since blue bin, green bin and garbage collection services had resumed in Ontario’s capital city, about 25,000 tons of piled up trash has been removed from temporary dump sites and about 5,000 street litter bins have been cleaned up.
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