Articles about “wastemanagement”
Photos: Step Inside Brooklyn's Massive New Recycling Center
New Yorkers produce roughly 11,000 tons of waste everyday. Go ahead and let that sink in. Stare long and hard at that plastic bag your takeout lunch arrived in. Hold it, gently. It's going to look and...
Mob Roundup: Dozens Taken Into Custody In New York, Suburbs
Photo: Veronica Louro/Shutterstock Get ready for some mobster perp walks! The Post reports, "The feds this morning cuffed and carted away 27 people around the metro area in connection with a long-running investigation into continued Mafia...
Mayor, Speaker Beg Assembly to Pass Trash Plan
Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Quinn urged the State Assembly to pass a bill authorizing the marine transfer station at the Gansevoort Pier. The MTS, part of the city's Solid Waste Management Plan, would handle recyclable...
Judge Makes Way for Upper East Side Garbage Transfer Station
Residential groups on the Upper East Side had filed a lawsuit to stop the building of a garbage transfer station at East 91st Street and the FDR Drive, but a judge dismissed the suit, noting that the...
New Garbage Plan Approved by City Council
The City Council passed the controversial trash plan that will create a new transfer station on the Upper East Side and a recycling center in the Meatpacking District as well as shift garbage disposal from trucks to...