Are you going to San Francisco?

The song, San Francisco, by The Mamas & the Papas in 1967 was a call to the “Hippie” generation to hang out in Haight-Ashbury and tune in and drop out.  San Francisco was ahead of its time in the movement of the youth we now know as the Boomers. San Francisco was the hot bed for new thinking.

San Francisco is again a hot bed for new thinking but its not who or what is coming but what is not leaving. San Francisco is not sending its garbage away; San Francisco is not trying to find another place for its trash, but reducing and reusing trash to the tune of 78%. San Francisco is on track to reduce its trash to ZERO by 2020, no trash by 2020, 8 short years away.

In those same 8 years we may be saddled with a huge Landfill that will overcome the very image of our Oxford County communities and ruin our environment and water systems. In this landfill will go the garbage of cities, primarily Toronto. Toronto is sending its waste away. Toronto is sending it to Middlesex, and now there is a proposal to send it to Oxford.

This letter is a call to Toronto to keep its trash, and to use it to its advantage instead of sending it away to the disadvantage of other communities.

This letter is to ask everyone to embrace the idea of ZERO waste, maybe not today, but to start moving there now and to continue to move there until it is accomplished.

Don’t go to San Francisco; bring the ideas of San Francisco to Toronto and beyond.