Materials and Waste

South Buffalo Brownfield Remediation Sites

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TSDR Hazardous Waste Sites on National Priorities List (NPL) represents georeferenced data for 1,572 NPL Superfund sites. The purpose is to provide an easily accessible data set of polygons for hazardous waste sites in the United States which can be used to identify nearby populations and assess their potential risk. Dataset Summary The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Hazardous Waste Sites on National Priorities List (NPL) is a database providing georeferenced data for 1,572 National Priorities List (NPL) Superfund sites. Data Source: NYS Department of State. http://opdgig.dos.ny.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NYOPDIG/PhysicalData/MapServer/41

Fuck 🖕 Recycling ♻

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Fuck 🖕 Recycling ♻

That’s how I increasingly feel about having to wash out plastic bottles for the recycling trash, which is an increasingly dubious thing. It’s just so much easier to toss them in a fire and burn them, especially nowadays with recycling to be mostly a feel-good scam. Maybe it’s a good thing with the amount of waste a suburbanite household generates, but I sure much rather just burn that crap that be participating in the solid waste racket.

NY 8 and the true cost of litter 🚮

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NY 8 and the true cost of litter 🚮

I was walking a remote section of NY 8 the other day, noticing the various pieces of litter along the road side. Some of it is intentional garbage dumping – the worn out television and recliner, the lamp shade – but a lot of it is packing from go food – plastic water bottles, beer cans, burrito and burger wrappers, french fries holders like you get from many a fast food chain.

Probably very few people litter but many pass by this road, and the occasional burger wrapper and beer can out the window adds up. Probably far more toss the wrapper in their car’s backseat and then put it into a designated garbage can, emptied and hauled to the outskirts of the city to be added to the ever growing mountains of garbage.

Go food might make people happy but it’s a temporary high one quickly consumed and discarded. Often the prices at gas stations and grease pits are far marked up from a sandwich made at home or reusable water or juice container. Money wasted that could be invested towards improving your life and future. Money spent on fatty foods and intoxicating beverages and more generally garbage now littering our roadsides.

Litter

New York City fails zero waste pledge. Why it’s going backward. – POLITICO

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New York City fails zero waste pledge. Why it’s going backward. – POLITICO

NEW YORK — Mountains of trash are getting steeper as the country’s largest city inches away from its ambitious goal of nearly zeroing out residential waste by 2030, emblematic of the nation’s struggles with more garbage and limited recycling options.

City Hall cut street sweeping in half during the Covid-19 pandemic. Residents are recycling at their lowest level since 2015. Composting food scraps — which comprise one-third of household waste — is becoming harder as the program has been a target of budget cuts. And reforms to the private-sector industry that collects commercial waste have been delayed once again.