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NYC Squabbles Over Daily Trash Management
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Jun 19, 2005 08:57pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jun 19, 2005 08:00pm |
| Description | In one week, New Yorkers throw out enough garbage to equal the weight of the Empire State Building, and there's a battle brewing in City Hall to change the way the city gets rid of it.
Each day, 50,000 tons of trash are hauled through the streets and carted out of the city by a fleet of trucks, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to start shipping it away on barges and move some trash transfer stations out of low-income communities.
The effort has become a sticky, dirty heap of politics, with accusations of "environmental racism" and trash talk from all sides. One city official from a wealthy Manhattan district doesn't want a trash transfer station stinking up his backyard, and some opponents to the mayor's plan say it doesn't address the overall need to reduce waste. |
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