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Trash, scrap metal seized from home recycling business by Grand Rapids officials
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Grand Rapids police and town personnel seized many hundreds of trash and scrap metallic Tuesday morning from a resident who operates a recycling enterprise out of his yard in violation of metropolis guidelines. Invoice Peterson, who lives at 639 Cherry St. SE, reported city officers arrived at his home and loaded a variety of merchandise — aluminum radiators, buckets of brass and zinc objects, copper wire, stainless metal sinks — into a dump truck and two box vans. He explained Tuesday’s seizure, the most current in a string of enforcement actions by the city, upsets him because it disrupts his mission of decreasing the amount of…