One year after Islip marked the 25th anniversary of the infamous garbage barge that made it a national laughingstock—and all the environmental progress it’s made since—politically connected ...

Bob Martinez mobilized state agencies to block any such thing. Suddenly, the New York City Garbage Barge was banned by six states and two foreign nations. In early may, trashman Harrelson ...

After a 6,000 mile journey, The Garbage Barge, as it came to be known, resulted in an epic mess. But it was also the birth of residential recycling in the U.S. as we know it.

He hitches a barge piled with 3,168 tons of garbage and heads down the coast to a dumping site in North Carolina. However, on arrival, two old sisters in red dresses smell the barge a-comin’ and ...

In March of that year, New York City authorities loaded a barge called the Mobro 4000 with garbage and sent it off to a methane-producing facility in North Carolina. Tar Heel State officials ...

Virginia officials cleared the way yesterday for trash barging to resume on the James River, approving lower standards and fees for waste companies than environmental groups had sought. The Waste ...