South Montgomery residents demand recycling facility leave over health, environmental, zoning concerns

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – A tense city council committee meeting was almost packed and split down the middle with detractors and supporters of Capital Recycling.

The company is located right in front of the Greater Washington Park neighborhood off Mobile Highway, and several residents in that neighborhood wish that wasn’t the case.

“We get the dust, we get the dust plumes, we see the smoke, we’ve already captured this on camera,” said neighborhood association President Classie Thomas. “We’ve got problems with rodents, possums, rats, then we’ve got problems with the sludge that when they clean it off it runs down our street into our drainage.”…

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