KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Michigan set a new record for meth labs last year, and no where is it worse than in Kalamazoo county, which was the only county to exceed 200 discoveries in one year, finishing 2014 with over a quarter of all the meth labs taken down or discovered in the state.
Undersheriff Pauli Matyas says most people come in contact with the debris of meth labs that have been discarded along the road.
He says don’t let it come in contact with your skin.
Just this past month a woman was badly burned by a meth lab explosion in Cooper Township, and the week before, three were injured when a meth lab burst into flames in Comstock Township.
It can cost between 500 and 25-hundred dollars to hire a hazardous materials firm to clean up a lab. That’s why Kalamazoo has created its own meth disposal facility and trained teams, to cut down the cost.
