The New Toronto Transfer Station was sealed off as police probed the discovery of a man’s body.
A man whose dead body was found at a New Toronto Transfer Station may be from out of town.
Toronto Police suspect the man’s body may have been dumped at the 260 New Toronto Street facility by a waste management truck, whose driver was unaware of the corpse.
Officers of the Homicide and Missing Person Unit have been scouring the sprawling facility, at New Toronto Street and Islington Avenue, since the discovery about 8:30 a.m. on March 1.
Officers of the Homicide and Missing Person Unit are probing the March 1 discovery.
Detectives are trying to determine if foul play was involved.
“Police are working to determine who he is and where the truck originated from, which may be outside of Toronto,” a police spokesperson said.
Toronto police’s 22 Division, which covers Etobicoke, is leading the investigation.
Larger trucks and vehicles with dump trailers are permitted to use the inside tip floor for drop off, police said. They said only one person is allowed out of the vehicle when inside.
Police believe the man’s body was unknowingly dumped there by a waste management truck.
A public drop-off is available behind the scale for smaller trucks and vehicles.
The company Waste Management (WM) operates 390 collection operations, 310 transfer stations, 267 landfill disposal sites, 17 waste-to-energy plants, 120 recycling facilities, 36 organic processing facilities and 137 landfill-gas-to-energy projects.
The company provides a full range of environmental services to nearly 21 million residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers.
It said WM ‘is strongly committed to the safe and responsible management of waste, working diligently to ensure regulatory compliance and protection of human health and the environment.’