I also noted New York City's polluting truck exports of trash to distant landfills.
Most the money would come from the half-cent sales tax increase and a plan to increase dumping fees at county landfills; the plan also counts on earning extra revenue by allowing neighboring counties to export 6,000 tons of trash a day to Orange County.
So fast, in fact, that she is exporting her cheeky blend of trash art to the real Brooklyn, where she just opened a small gallery.
As many communities are forced to export their trash to out-of-state landfills, one alternative to the mounting refuse crisis has been to burn what we can no longer dump or bury.
The administration had come under fire from some environmentalists for reconsidering incinerators as an alternative to the expensive practice of exporting trash to other states.
The total amount of trash imported and exported around the U.S. is 40 million tons.
Recycling can obviously reduce the amount of trash that needs to be exported, as well as the cost of doing so.
In the city budget adopted in June, officials had calculated the cost of exporting the trash to be $55 a ton but had underestimated it; the actual cost is $62 a ton, necessitating the additional $28 million.
Think of trash collection.
