As residents of Detroit’s 48211 zip code, Melissa Sargent, her husband, and their five kids live in the line of a special kind of fire — one that ignites trash and spews sometimes hazardous pollutants into the air surrounding their home."[We] smell the piled up garbage as we work in our garden, as our kids play outside and ride their bikes, we hear the jet-engine-like sound at all hours of the night," says Sargent. "But what I’m most worried about is what we can’t smell or hear."
Less than two miles from Sargent's home on Detroit's quaint Farnsworth Street, one of the country's largest trash incinerators burns waste from the city and elsewhere in the region, spitting the byproducts over neighborhoods occupied by thousands of people.…