Waste
In August 2002, NYLPI and our partners in the Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods (OWN) won a resounding victory. In unveiling his proposal to export New York City's waste stream, Mayor Bloomberg adopted OWN's plan of equitably Retrofitting the City's Marine Transfer Stations (MTS's) to compact, containerize and export residential waste via water. The Mayor's plan contemplates possibly moving commercial waste through the MTS's in the future, closing many land-based waste transfer stations. In affecting a basic city service (the world's largest solid waste contracts), and altering a citywide policy based on environmental justice principles, OWN and NYLPI's victory marked one of the most significant moments in the history of NYC's environmental justice movement ever.
