The environment minister has brokered a deal to keep the Michigan border open to residential garbage until 2010 and Toronto's mayor has found an Ontario landfill to buy.Hooray! The garbage crisis is over.Or is it?Those deals cover only about one-third of all the garbage that leaves this province bound for landfills south of the border.Ontario's businesses, restaurants, schools and institutions truck 3 million tonnes of waste a year to the United States, most of it to Michigan."A lot of people haven't made the connection that it is really their waste, it's just not deposited at their home. It's their lunch at the office," said Rob Cook, president of the Ontario Waste Management Association. Michigan residents, who have been fighting for years to stop being Ontario's dumping ground, are unlikely to be satisfied with a one-third reduction of trucks over four years and future attempts to close the border to trash are guaranteed, insiders say.Toronto's pending purchase of the Green Lane landfill, near London, Ont., to use as the city's dump when it has to stop shipping to Michigan, may also have unintended consequences.

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