Calgary residents tired of barrage of trash from ‘garbage tornado’

From any distance between six to 10 km a day, Monique Trudeau and her trusty pup Storm are pounding the pavement somewhere around her southeast Calgary neighbourhood of Copperfield. But she says that stroll has produced a disappointing sight over the past couple of weeks. “There’s geese that have babies in (that pond) every year, there’s ducks,” she says. “It’s just really sad for the wildlife.” Those ponds have become inundated with trash from the nearby Shepard landfill facility on 130th Avenue SE, particularly after a major wind event on Apr. 24. On that day, thousands of pieces of trash co…