California sending toxic waste to Arizona's landfills

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Materials considered toxic waste by California are being sent to Arizona and winding up in state landfills. MORE ⬇️

"California is continuing to dump its hazardous waste in regular landfills in Arizona," said investigative reporter Robert Lewis.

"We have our own regulations where we consider certain waste to be hazardous that doesn't meet the federal definition of hazardous," Lewis said."Arizona, in contrast, follows the federal law." It's actually cheaper to just take it over the border and dump it at a regular landfill. It's anywhere from 20% to 60% cheaper on a project which on a large project can be hundreds of thousands of dollars," he said.City of Yuma councilmember Michael Shelton is voicing his concern and disapproval of a potential hazardous waste facility operating in his city.

 

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