Nearby the state's population centers in upstate, there are several composting facilities for food waste, mostly from institutional generators like cafeterias and prisons. This year's state budget, contained language requiring food waste composting for large generators of waste, where facilities exist nearby.
Data Source: Composting - Solid Waste Management Facilities Map. https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Composting-Solid-Waste-Management-Facilities-Map/y4ic-kfv6
Probably everybody should recycle.
This picture is inside a burning barrel from a farm not too far from where I live. While these people are truly nice people, as you can see they don't recycle. But can you blame them?
By burning they are reducing their waste down to almost nothing. And it's a pain to store and haul all these consumeristic extras to the landfill every couple of weeks.
Taken on Wednesday December 27, 2006 at Trash.
Surprisingly the totals for Messer Deprivation were similar for landfills as Title V emitters. I am thinking though the issue is different here, as there are many small, rural landfills, not all of them are in the poorest communities in the state.
Blue - Brush and land clearing waste
Yellow - Municipal solid waste
Red - Construction Debris
Purple - Industrial Waste
Teal - Long Island Ash Landfills
Data Source: https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Landfill-Solid-Waste-Management-Facilities-Map/afg5-7i6u
