In the village of Inukjuak on the northeast shore of the Hudson Bay, trash isn’t something that vanishes to some far-off landfill in the back of a garbage truck. It stays close by. Then, it burns.
“Burning of the domestic waste is a big problem in my community,” Shaomik Inukpuk, the town manager of Inukjuak, told Quebec’s environmental review board, the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE), last June during consultations with northern Indigenous communities.
He wasn’t the only one raising the issue.
During the consultations in Quebec, Inuit and Naskapi communities expressed their concerns over the garbage problem.
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