Detroit's Defunct Trash Incinerator Smokestack Imploded, Ending Decades of Stink

The smokestack of a shuttered trash incinerator in Detroit, which emitted fumes and a rank odor of burning trash for decades, has been brought down in a controlled implosion as part of the final phase of the facility's yearlong demolition. The incinerator, which burned up to 5,000 tons of trash per day, was a health hazard for the nearby lower-income community of color. Detroit household trash is now trucked to landfills outside the city limits. Precautions were taken to contain the dust from the implosion to the site.