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Bronx Solid Waste Advisory Board promotes "Green the Bronx" and urges input on city's 10-year solid waste plan
Summary
At the Jan. 12 Bronx Borough Service Cabinet meeting, SWAB chair Dior Saint Hilaire outlined a vision for a Bronx 0 Waste Center, framed concentrated transfer stations in the South Bronx as an environmental-justice problem, and urged community boards to appoint representatives and submit public comments on the city's 10-year solid waste management plan.
Dior Saint Hilaire, chair of the Bronx Solid Waste Advisory Board, used a Jan. 12 presentation to call for a borough-centered approach to waste reduction, reuse and green job creation. Speaking to the Bronx Borough Service Cabinet, Saint Hilaire described a vision she calls "Green the Bronx," including a proposed Bronx 0 Waste Center intended to centralize organics recycling, materials recovery, deconstruction and reuse while creating local employment.
Saint Hilaire framed the issue as one of environmental justice: she described waste transfer stations concentrated in the South Bronx and…
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