From: "Rich Gauszka" 

My take on trash is that if each state has to handle their own then they'll
be more circumspect in how they deal with it.

Nuclear/radioactive waste is another issue but it still needs to be handled
by the country that creates it.


Mark"  wrote in message news:44087ebe{at}w3....
> Remember the barge? 
>
> http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs9garb,0,6996774
.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation
> "It was 1987 and America was awash in trashy news, most notably the sex
> scandals involving former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart and television evangelist
> Jim Bakker.
>
> But the trash story that eclipsed all others was the saga of Long Island's
> wandering garbage barge and its futile 6,000-mile search for a home..."
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44087b97$1{at}w3....
>>
>> "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/9e75b1ce4082
dd57/
>>>>
>>>> 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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