Max and Hannah offer some recycling truths and tips.
Have you ever seen a landfill in New York City? Neither have we. In fact, there are no landfills or incinerators within the city limits, while New Yorkers produce over 12,000 tons of waste every day. So where does it go?
There are a few avenues of disposal for our refuse. Most non-recyclable waste from the city goes straight to Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia atop diesel-inhaling trash trucks. If the waste does not hit the highway, it is shipped across the Hudson where it is properly incinerated in Newark, NJ. New Yorkers only recycle 17% of all of their waste, half of what they could do under the state’s recycling policy. This means that 9,960 tons of non- recyclable trash must be exported daily, costing the state $290 million each year.
