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From 1991 until its closing it was the only landfill to accept New York City's residential waste. [4] It consists of four mounds that range in height from 90 to about 225 feet (30 to about 70 m) and hold about 150 million short tons (140 × 10 ^ 6 t) of solid waste. The archaeologist Martin Jones characterizes it as "among the largest man-made ...
New York City is a hotbed of canning activity largely due to the city's high population density mixed with New York State's container deposit laws. [18] Canning remains a contentious issue in NYC with the canners often facing pushback from the city government, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and other recycling collection companies ...
An 1865 map of Lower Manhattan below 14th Street showing land reclamation along the shoreline. [1]The expansion of the land area of Lower Manhattan in New York City by land reclamation has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the Hudson and East rivers as well as those of the Upper New York Bay.
In 1987, the City of New York found that it had reached its landfill capacity. The city agreed to ship its garbage to Morehead City, North Carolina, where there were plans to convert it into methane. On 22 March 1987, the tugboat Break of Day towed the barge Mobro 4000 and its cargo of over 3,100 tons (2,812 tonnes) of trash. [2]
The Dewey Loeffel Landfill is an EPA superfund site located in Rensselaer County, New York.In the 1950s and 1960s, several companies including General Electric, Bendix Corporation and Schenectady Chemicals used the site as a disposal facility for more than 46,000 tons of industrial hazardous wastes, including solvents, waste oils, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), scrap materials, sludges and ...
Sen. Pete Harckham speaks at a rally urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to make it illegal for Holtec International to discharge radioactive waste in the Hudson River on August 15, 2023 at Westchester ...
Fresh Kills (from the Middle Dutch word kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel") is a stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. It is the site of the Fresh Kills Landfill, formerly New York City's principal landfill.
Reed, the Bay Area waste management spokesman, shared photos of the gargantuan piles of waste sitting in the company's San Francisco site. He said while these holiday spikes are predictable, they ...