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.

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

I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

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.

With the limited knowledge I have of the situation, I would not have signed the petition.