Thanks for all the responses.
The material is being used for road-base on an HMAC roadway. The design firm is trying to claim that objectionable material is included within the 1.5% by mass deleterious material allowance. This seems ludicrous to me b/c it'd take a ton of plastic and wood...
Does anybody have a feel for what the definition of "reasonably free of objectionable material" actually means? The reclaimed base material the contractor delivered apparently passed all the labs from the materials supplier but it looked like a road to a landfill once spread across the subgrade...
