It gets out of the waste stream, out of the landfills.

There was something in the waste stream that wasn't supposed to be there or was there without the knowledge of the company that generated the waste.

You really can't take that particular waste stream out of the affected parish,

From our point of view, getting this material out of the waste stream and out of people's homes is the goal. Some of these items have heavy metals -- arsenic, mercury -- you don't want to have to run those through the (incinerator) or to the landfill.

It was the committee's feeling that these were the five materials best situated to be pulled from the waste stream -- much of these materials were already being pulled.

Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.