Scotch Line Landfill

Late last summer I was sent on assignment by Cottage Life magazine to photograph the Scotch Line Landfill in Minden, Ontario. All I knew going into the shoot was that there were apparently bears, lots of bears, and also garbage, lots of garbage.

What I also found were two incredibly nice and enthusiastic employees, lots of interesting piles of one man’s trash, another man’s treasure. And at the very end of the night Scotch Line became African ‘Bear’ Safari, with droves of family’s lined up to watch the bears chomp on trash.