[1] As Toronto’s last remaining landfill site, Keele Valley, neared capacity during the 1990s, it was found that no other municipality in Southern Ontario was willing to accept the garbage, but there was also no political support for a change to incineration.
[2] By the time the Keele Valley site closed at the end of 2002, the city had made a new deal, to ship its garbage by truck to Carleton Farms Landfill in Sumpter Township, Michigan, United States.
Issues at the Canada–United States border and opposition from residents in Michigan prompted the need to look for alternate sites or expand the city's recycling programs.
Councillors opposed to the agreement accused Toronto Mayor David Miller of pushing through a secretive deal, and there was also a strong reaction from residents and members of parliament from the London metropolitan area.
[citation needed] Jane Pitfield, who ran (and lost) against Miller in the November 2006 municipal election, advocated incineration as an alternative method of disposing of waste.