Quote Originally Posted by j to the jeremy View Post
There is no such thing as clean incineration.

If we must have it, there is no excuse for it to be within a mile of a major hospital complex, university, cultural center, and smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood that would otherwise be desirable for redevelopment but is now a wasteland.

And by the way, residents of Detroit do not appreciate Canadian "recyclables" that Toronto and other municipalities have been found sending to the incinerator to burn. Plus, the incinerator can not even be turned on unless it is full to capacity, something the city achieves each day by burning suburban and Canadian trash. It is an example of putting the regions trash, quite literally, in what should be its gem, greater downtown Detroit.

Detroit is the largest city in the US without curbside recycling, despite the tireless efforts of grassroots groups to change this. Instead, we support our asthma rates of 3x higher than normal by burning other people's trash in a residential area, all so that a steam heating loop for 146 buildings downtown can shoot smelly air out of manholes.
Ummm... some corrections here.... all Canadian trash goes to a landfill in western Wayne County... and NOT the Detroit Incinerator.... and if there's no curbside recycling... then what are those [[2 cubic ft. sized) blue plastic boxes that go curbside in Detroit every trashday next to the tall trash barrels and "paper" leaf/lawn bags??