Cleaning up poor neighborhoods is hard, not only because there's a lot of scrubbing to do, but community attitudes often run steeply counter to environmental concerns, according to this story from Medill.
Key graf:
"The plant is on her group’s “toxic tours” of the neighborhood. Other stops include a plant that burns leftover chemicals from steel shipping drums; a plastic recycling plant moved to the area from the ritzy, North Shore Lincoln Park neighborhood; a recycling plant that takes garbage from eight other neighborhoods so smells and attracts rats, and a 24-acre former asphalt plant that contaminated 170 nearby homes with cancer-causing chemicals."
This seems to me to be an important story as community values shift in America's intown communities.
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