Dumpster diver nonpareil?
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– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News.

 

Toronto’s “Über-Raccoon” dumpster divers cannot be stopped.

 

Toronto is known for its local raccoons’ aggressive ability to get into garbage cans and the city has spent millions trying to fight the gray menace — with mixed results.

 

The raccoon scourge was bad enough that the city spent CA$31 million on “raccoon-resistant” organic green-colored waste bins in 2016 in what Canadian media have called a “raccoon war” with recent coverage including a 6,000-word investigation published by the Toronto Sun.

 

 

While Toronto’s new waste bins feature child-proof sorts of access features which raccoons cannot open, wear and tear on the bins as well as human user operator errors make the bins vulnerable.

 

 

Animal behaviorist and raccoon expert Suzanne MacDonald, and who has long been hearing the same concerns from locals about raccoons, has been worried about the possibility that the city’s “very fat” raccoons would starve.

 

Ms. MacDonald has been measuring and weighing dead raccoons since about a year before the green bin rollout started to see whether their body mass index changed.

 

While Ms. MacDonald was not able to say the raccoons were losing weight, “they’re not starving to death, that’s for sure,” she told Dempsey.

 

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