City of GR clears yard of ‘recycler’

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Bill Peterson heard a knock at his door early Wednesday this morning. It was a Grand Rapids police officer.   

“Answered the door for him and he and three other people came inside and gave me the search warrant.” Peterson said.

Moments later, an army of workers began picking through items in the backyard of his home on Cherry Street SE near Union Avenue SE. Old trailers were loaded onto flat beds and household items were loaded into city garbage trucks that were waiting out front.

Peterson says he waskeeping these items out of landfills.


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