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Big sky environmental wanted to haul all that garbage to less crowded areas and turn it into compost. But apparently, the plan lacked the approval of local officials, who turned the barge away.
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- 1. Big Sky Environmental : Long Island Garbage
- 2. Big Sky Environmental has grown to become Alabama’s premier solid waste facility. The company opened for operations on September 1, 2015, and is permitted to take in up to 25,000 tons of solid waste each day.
- 3. That sounds like a lot, and it is. But to put it into context, consider that the average American throws out about four and a half pounds of stuff each and every day. Environmental experts who track such things say that all the trash Americans throw away in the course of one year would fill a hole as long and wide as a football field, and one hundred miles deep.
- 4. What to do with all that garbage? Even though thirty years have passed, there may be no better illustration of the garbage question than the infamous Long Island Garbage barge. Loaded with more than three thousand tons of Long Island garbage. The fate of all that garbage had to do with an Alabama man named Lowell Harrelson, who has no association at all with Big Sky Environmental.
- 5. Big Sky Environmental wanted to haul all that garbage to less crowded areas and turn it into compost. But apparently, the plan lacked the approval of local officials, who turned the barge away. In the months ahead, it traveled to Cuba, Mexico, Belize, and Louisiana, but no one wanted it. After months, the barge returned to Long Island, where it began, and wound in the landfill it would have gone to if not for the compost idea.
- 6. For More Information Visit On : https://www.bigskyenv.com/ https://medium.com/@bigskyenvironme https://www.behance.net/bigskyenvironmental http://bigskyenvironmental.strikingly.com/ https://bigskyenvironmental.wordpress.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/big-sky-environmental
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