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New York Is Running Out of Room for Its Trash

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Inside Climate News reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with Inside Climate News, which released it. New York City is running out of places to dump its trash. In the latest draft of the city’s once-a-decade solid waste management plan, the sanitation department warns that the landfills receiving much of the city’s garbage are filling up fast. More than two-thirds of the city’s municipal waste is transported to landfills hundreds of […] Original link: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05102026/new-york-trash-landfills-are-full/

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