From the Queens Courier:Residents and community leaders are trashing a company’s plan to increase garbage export from Long Island through their neighborhoods.
One World Recycling, which processes garbage in Lindenhurst, Long Island that is hauled by New York and Atlantic Railway through tracks in Middle Village, Ridgewood and Glendale, has applied to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to nearly triple its output from 370 tons of garbage per day to 1,100 tons.
“We’re going to have garbage all day and all night, that’s how we see it,” said Mary Parisen, chair of Civics United for Railroad Environmental Solutions (CURES). “We’re not happy about it.”
After One World applied, the community of Lindenhurst rejected the idea during a public hearing period that ended on August 16. But following procedure, the DEC has until 90 days after that date to review the application and make a decision.
With just about a month remaining until the deadline, community leaders in Queens are worried the DEC will make the wrong choice and plan to meet with agency officials to work towards a solution.
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Helicopters flying low over Whitestone Queens for wealthy Long Island commuters on FAA ok; Long Island trash being shipped through Glendale Queens on DEC ok; where's the political leadership in NYC Council! Come on boys and girls at least pass some kind of weak kneed resolution.
Long Island, as I have noticed, is a big, long island. Why are they bothering sending by land what could easily be sent by sea?
If we are doing it here with the new transfer station in queens, why cant Long Island do the same?
What's the alternative?
What exactly is the "wrong choice"?
If they are sending the garbage inland to somewhere like PA, it would make sense to send it by rail the whole way rather than to barge it to rail.
Not if it has to go 140 miles north and then south to do so. Most landfills are in Virginia now anyway.
This is construction debris. It's generally not 'stinky' trash, unless the shady people running the operation decide to dump a body in there.
The alternate is hundreds of truck trips down the LIE, so you get both the 'smell' (which doesn't exist) and the exhaust from tens of thousands of truck trips a year.
If it were cheaper by barge I'm sure they'd already do it - like the scrap guy in LIC who is next to the tracks but barges everything to NJ.
Wrong. Read here
Money is again the root of NY corruption and the citizens be damned!
The problem is that One World is not just loading demo debris. They take raw garbage from Trinty Transport, and that is the stink. One World needs to tell the people the truth. They are doing more harm to us then helping.
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