Mobro 4000 - Wikipedia
The Mobro 4000 was a barge owned by MOBRO Marine, Inc. made infamous in 1987 for hauling the same load of trash along the east coast of North America from New York City to Belize and back until a way was found to dispose of the garbage.
The Mobro 4000: The Infamous New York Trash Barge That No …
2024年10月1日 · The Mobro 4000 was a barge filled with over 3,000 tons of New York trash that went on a months-long voyage around the East Coast, the Caribbean, and a few rather unwelcoming countries in a desperate effort to find a place to dump the garbage.
Voyage of the Gross: Where New York City’s Trash Goes - Curbed
2022年8月12日 · New York apartment superintendents once burned waste in their buildings’ basement incinerators, smudging the skyline daily, but the city outlawed that practice in 1989, and the air has been...
Trash Fight: The long voyage of New York’s unwanted garbage barge
2017年8月14日 · Every day, New York City routinely exported 25,000 tons of garbage that its landfills no longer had room for. Most of it was trucked overland hundreds of miles to landfills in Pennsylvania,...
A City Built on Garbage: New York City’s History As Told …
2023年6月6日 · Prior to the 19th century, New York City operated without a centralized litter collection system, placing the burden of disposal on individuals. Unsurprisingly, many took the easiest route and discarded their waste on the streets, into rivers, and other open spaces.
The Most Watched Load of Garbage in the Memory of Man - VICE
2013年5月13日 · For once, New York City was thinking earnestly about its trash. It was the spring of 1987, and a barge called the Mobro 4000 was carrying over 3,000 tons of it—a load that, for various...
Trash Fight: The Long Voyage of New York’s Unwanted Garbage Barge
2017年8月16日 · The tugboat Break of Dawn was one of hundreds of modest working vessels that plied the waters off the U.S. East Coast during the year 1987, and this was just another job: hauling a 230-foot-long bargeload of 18-foot-high commercial garbage …
A Barge Full of Garbage Helped to Fuel a Recycling Movement
2019年10月14日 · In the 1980s, rising public awareness about waste was fueled by a bizarre news story about a meandering New York City garbage barge. Dan Rather dubbed it “the most watched load of garbage in the memory of Man.” Johnny Carson joked about it in his nightly comedy routine.
If You Can Make It Here, They Won't Take It Anywhere
2019年5月1日 · Howell and his New York partners (some with links to the Lucchese crime family) devised a plan to load a barge with 3,168 tons of New York City and Long Island trash from the Islip landfill and bring it to North Carolina.
THE END BEGINS FOR TRASH NO ONE WANTED - The New York Times
1987年9月2日 · Yesterday, the 3,100 tons of trash aboard the barge Mobro, perhaps the world's most celebrated garbage, began to meet its long-delayed fate as a New York City Sanitation Department...