Wayne County Executive Warren C. Evans address Radioactive Waste Headed to Wayne County

There has to be a better way of handling and disposing of hazardous waste and toxic chemicals that doesn't always involve those highly unwelcome materials finding their way into Wayne County. While I understand that those materials have to go somewhere, and few if any public officials are willing to welcome toxic waste with open arms, there needs to be a solution, through new policy or legislation, that doesn't equal Wayne County as dumping ground for what no one else wants. Because that is an assignment we simply will not accept.

A hazardous waste landfill in Wayne County is preparing to take...