Taking Responsibility For Waste
Thursday, July 20th, 2006Yesterday the NYC Council approved the Mayor’s waste plan which includes a highly-opposed marine transfer station here on the Upper East Side. Personally, I agree with this assessment. This will actually reduce the transit of garbage through the city’s streets by funneling Manhattan’s garbage to a couple of stations where they will be loaded onto barges and removed by water instead of by road. It’s not nice to the people living right next to the transfer stations, but they have to go somewhere. The garbage has to go somewhere. Until it gets reduced, of course. Conservation and waste reduction should be part of this plan, but I don’t see it yet. Still, I think this is a positive step forward towards communities taking responsibility for their waste. It might help even more if the garbage trucks going to the transfer station were routed up Park and Madison Avenues…
