As I said before, landfills are huge. People think they can just throw them in the garbage, and they're disposed of. There are some toxic chemicals in flares.
What I'm really concerned about is.... We talk about the stories of people trying to get rid of these flares. We are called all the time, and people come to our detachments to drop them off. We don't have a solution for them, and it's disheartening for community members. To put these flares in a box in the corner of the garage is dangerous.
We've had flare disposal days. We've had a program with CIL where they have people come in to grab flares and dispose of them properly. Back in the day, the OPP bomb techs used to take them. We don't do that anymore. It's not their mandate. There are so many things they needed to do, so we got rid of that program. There really is no place out there the public can go to.