"We could have either capped the landfill or reclaimed it," said Barbara A. Blass, a town councilwoman and a member of the Town Board's solid waste management committee.
Councilman David S. Yassky, a Brooklyn Democrat who is also a member of the sanitation and solid waste management committee, said he was pleased the mayor has brought in help from outside the department and is now hiring an outside consultant.
City Councilman Michael E. McMahon, the chairman of the council's sanitation and solid waste management committee, is from Staten Island, where he remembers the bags blowing all over from the Fresh Kills landfill, now closed.
"Unfortunately, the interim plan, with the obnoxious land transfer stations, the thousands of trucks being put on the roads and the spiraling costs, is looking more and more like the long-term plan," said Councilman Michael E. McMahon, chairman of the sanitation and solid waste management committee, which will meet today for the briefing by the mayor's aides.
In a 2006 report, an expert UK committee on radioactive waste management stated "it is generally considered that a voluntary process is essential to ensure equity, efficiency and the likelihood of successfully completing the process.
This, plus the dicey situation into which the two EgyptAir employees unwittingly stepped, should make people think twice about taking trash, said City Councilman Antonio Reynoso, who is chairman of the committee on sanitation and solid waste management.
In 2017, the council formed a committee to review the city's waste management agreement in hopes of amending its binding contract — which automatically renews — rather than relying on a competitive bidding process that could lead to lower rates.
In 2017, the City Council formed a committee to review the city's waste management agreement in hopes of amending its contract rather than relying on a competitive bidding process.
As chairman of the sanitation committee he was instrumental in overhauling the waste management plan to make it fairer and more environmentally sound, and he has been a steadfast champion of recycling, ushering through pioneering legislation on electronic waste.
Among those who may join the committee are members of the city's Historic Resources Board and a representative from Rainbow Environmental Services, the waste management company that owns the property where the buildings reside, according to Boardman.
