Sentences with phrase «new waste transfer stations»

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and Council member Annabel Palma, the head of the Bronx Council delegation, joined up with other Council members and environmental justice advocates at City Hall today to rail against Mayor Bloomberg's plan to shelve the building of four new waste transfer stations — three Manhattan and one Brooklyn.

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In answering questions from the press, Lhota addressed some of the operational aspects of the City's waste transfer plan, asserting that eliminating the 91st Street station and instead continuing to truck the affected trash to New Jersey would be less expensive and a better outcome.

The Ulster Town Board has officially declined to sign a new contract with the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, opting instead to look into whether hauling waste from the town transfer station to the agency's facility might make more fiscal sense.

«If approved, this proposal [to not fund the new transfer stations] almost exclusively concentrates the burden of handling NYC's solid waste in a handful of low - income communities of color in Brooklyn and the Bronx — yet again,» it said in a press release sent out by the New York Environmental Justice Alliannew transfer stations] almost exclusively concentrates the burden of handling NYC's solid waste in a handful of low - income communities of color in Brooklyn and the Bronx — yet again,» it said in a press release sent out by the New York Environmental Justice AllianNew York Environmental Justice Alliance.

asking for a review of Waste Management of New Yorkâ $ ™ s application to expand a waste transfer station on Review Avenue -LSB-...]

While general counsel at Riverkeeper I was asked by a very well - known environmental lawyer, one who had long - fought alongside us to protect the environment, to support the removal of a waste - transfer station from a new park.

These days New York's waste from those ubiquitous white garbage collection trucks is dumped onto the floor of waste transfer stations that are typically located in poor neighborhoods, and then loaded onto large trucks for shipment out of New York City.