{"id":18670,"date":"2017-03-23T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wasteadvantagemag.com\/?p=18670"},"modified":"2017-03-23T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:51:59","slug":"long-island-garbage-barge-of-87-still-influences-solid-waste-disposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wasteadvantagemag.com\/long-island-garbage-barge-of-87-still-influences-solid-waste-disposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Garbage Barge of \u201987 Still Influences Solid Waste Disposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks 30 years since the Long Island garbage barge put a spotlight on the problem of solid waste disposal. The barge set sail from Islip in 1987 in an effort to dump 3,100 tons of trash to a dump in North Carolina. When that plan backfired, the vessel searched for two months for a place to dump its garbage. Eventually, a deal was negotiated to have the garbage burned in Brooklyn with its ash buried in an Islip Town landfill.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Three decades later, solid waste experts say the area could soon be in trouble again like it was in 1987. In a News 12\/Newsday special report, it was revealed that Long Island is still transporting hundreds of tons of garbage off Long Island by truck to landfills in Pennsylvania and Ohio.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>A Stony Brook University study revealed that the national average of garbage output per person per day is 4.5 pounds. On Long Island, it is nearly double \u2013 7 pounds per person, per day.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>According to a Newsday study, 50 percent of solid waste garbage is burned in waste-to-energy plants, 35 percent is recycled, and the remaining 15 percent is trucked to out-of-state landfills.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Environmental activist Maureen Murphy says we have to do better. &#8220;We need solutions, and that includes increasing recycling. It includes recycling food waste\u2026we need to move from the philosophy of seeing our garbage as a waste product, and looking at it as a raw material,&#8221; says Murphy.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Experts say there&#8217;s an urgent need for action. In eight years, Brookhaven Town will close its landfill, which is used to bury ash from incinerators. Supervisor Ed Romaine insists towns shouldn&#8217;t have to solve Long Island&#8217;s garbage crisis by themselves.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>&#8220;We need to start moving now on a regional plan on how to handle solid waste not only here in Brookhaven, but throughout Nassau and Suffolk counties,&#8221; says Romaine.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/><i class=\"\">To read the full story, visit <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/news\/li-garbage-barge-of-87-still-influences-solid-waste-disposal-1.13302258\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/news\/li-garbage-barge-of-87-still-influences-solid-waste-disposal-1.13302258<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks 30 years since the Long Island garbage barge put a spotlight on the problem of solid waste disposal. 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