Illegal electronic waste dump in the Upper Peninsula cleaned up after years

Wanting to keep his income stream going, he tossed the stuff with no value in small piles. Television tubes and plastic TV carcasses started to pile up — piled up so high that the house could not be seen from the street. The glass TV tubes were piled among the trees around the house. The dump would take a few of the glass tubes but not as many as had been collected.

As more people heard about the easy way to get rid of stuff, the more dumping occurred. It extended several hundred feet on each side of the house along the road. It included stuff that had no value. It was simply people who were taking advantage of the situation. With this increasing eyesore came some neighbor complaints — first to the township and then to the county. The township could not do anything because they did not have a blight ordinance to enforce the cleanup. The county did not respond. The road commission told William he needed to stop.