City Trash Plan Forgoes Trucks, Favoring Barges

Three years after the closing of the mammoth Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, the Bloomberg administration has drawn up a 20-year plan to deal with the city’s residential waste by shipping the bulk of it elsewhere by barge, officials who have been briefed on the plan said yesterday.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/nyregion/07trash.html?ex=1098154977&ei=1&en=10a07dc61a85e76e