Group lobbies to stop trash from crossing border.Detroit residents are not the only Americans howling about Canadian trash ending up in their backyard. A Northern Michigan This article is about the region; for the university, see Northern Michigan University Northern Michigan - or more properly Northern Lower Michigan - is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan, popular as a tourist destination. grassroots environmental group is launching a campaign to stop Sudbury-area trash from being dumped at a Dafter, Mich. landfill, south of Sault Ste. Marie Sault Sainte Marie — pronounced "Soo Saint Marie" (IPA /su seɪnt məˈɹi/) — is the name of two cities on the Saint Marys River, which forms part of the boundary between the United States and Canada. , Mich. Tri-County Pollution Control announced it is launching an aggressive lobbying campaign to stop Waste Management Inc., the Houston, TX-based owner of the landfill, from accepting Canadian garbage garbage: see solid waste. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the group, refuse from Sudbury has been trucked across the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie in enclosed en·close also in·close tr.v. en·closed, en·clos·ing, en·clos·es 1. To surround on all sides; close in. 2. To fence in so as to prevent common use: enclosed the pasture. trailers for the past year, but has always proceeded to other landfills down-state. Tri-County says they have recently learned that Waste Management was planning to begin delivering two or three transfer loads of household trash per day from the Sudbury area to the Dafter landfill. The first shipments were scheduled to arrive as early as Mar. 15. Tri-County president Annie Goetz says the "two-per-cent increase in Michigan's trash in 2003 pales in comparison to the 35 per cent increase of Canadian trash imports in the same year." |
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