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Article: The search for a landfill site in the risk society.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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One of the most pressing environmental problems that modern society faces is waste disposal, and addressing this issue has become an urgent matter for many industrial societies because the space required for disposing of waste is quickly running out (Yearley, 1992a: 34). Dealing with waste is a particularly pressing issue in Ontario, Canada because in 1993, 45% of this province's landfill capacity was lost with the closing of three of its largest landfills (Ontario MOEE, 1993).
The problem of waste disposal has been further compounded by the fact that landfill sites are now known to introduce environmental and health risks through the generation of a toxic ...