From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message news:4408793b$1{at}w3....
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> http://story.michigansun.com/p.x/ct/9/id/b09843c0b13c7358/cid/9e75b1ce4082dd
57/
>>
>> Michigan moved closer Wednesday to banning imports of Canadian garbage,
>> but
>> the bill still has to be passed by the U.S. Congress.
>>
>> "With this package signed into law we will be sending a
strong message to
>> Washington and to Canada that we are not taking any more Canadian
trash,"
>> the bill's sponsor, Rep. Dan Acciavatti, said.
>>
>> Michigan's state Senate passed the bill, and then the state's House of
>> Representatives followed suit.
>>
>> The U.S. Department of Environmental Quality says about 29 per cent of
>> the
>> trash dumped in Michigan landfills in the last fiscal year came from
>> Canada
>> and other states.
>>
>> The bill still has to be signed by the state govenor who supports the
>> bill.
>> As well, U.S. federal legislation authorizing the trash ban is still
>> pending
>> in Congress.
>>
>> In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states cannot stop trash from
>> crossing their borders without approval from Congress.
>>
>>
> It's trade....
>
> Adam

Actually we've had some scrupulous land fill operators use some weak laws
to abuse that trade. Currently Toronto alone  ships 111 trucks of waste per
day to Michigan landfills. Even though it's outlawed medical and
radioactice waste has been part of those shipments. Unless you like a truck
dripping blood on the Ambassador Bridge?

http://stabenow.senate.gov/stoptrash/faq.htm

Sumpter Township police officers arrested the driver of a Canadian trash
truck at a Michigan landfill after he had crossed the Michigan-Canadian
border with more than 50 pounds of drugs inside of his truck. Canadian
trash trucks carrying radioactive materials, most likely medical waste,
have been turned back at U.S. ports of entry no less than five times, and a
trash truck containing bags of untreated blood was stopped at the
Ambassador Bridge because it was literally dripping blood.

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