Blue collar workers. Lower income communities. The communities that use incinerators often have high Afro-American, Latino, and other minority populations. Three out of every five Afro-Americans and Latinos in the US have a toxic site in their community. This is environmental racism, plain and simple.
Some communities stop incineration plants from coming to town.
Navajo natives in Dilcon, AZ, defeated plans for a toxic incinerator and landfill on their reservation. I believe that they had the idea that because we're a minority, we're looked at as not being able to defend ourselves. I'm glad that we got involved in this and opposed this construction. Unfortunately, many people in communities targeted for incinerators haven't succeeded in keeping their communities safe. McFarland, California, is the home of Marta Salinas and her family.