By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press Oct. 9--At first, Joan Slatton was thrilled to hear last month that Canadian trash would stop coming to Michigan by 2011. She lives near the Carleton Farms landfill, in Wayne County's Huron Township, where two-thirds of the trash being dumped comes from Ontario.

By KEITH LESLIE TORONTO (CP) - An agreement to phase out hundreds of daily truckloads of garbage from the Toronto area to Michigan by 2010 gives local municipalities four years more breathing room to find alternatives for their trash, Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten said Thursday.