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New York City generates about fifty thousand tons of garbage every day. Find out what's in New York City’s trash, how it gets taken out of the city, and where it's dumped! Benjamin Miller is a Senior Fellow at the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems and author of Fat of the Land: The Garbage of New York – The Last Two Hundred Years. Bob Gardener is Vice Director of the Landfill Management Division of the Solid Waste Association of North America and Senior Vice President with SCS Engineers based in Virginia.
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New York City generates about fifty thousand tons of garbage every day. Find out what's in New York City’s trash, how it gets taken out of the city, and where it's dumped! Benjamin Miller is a Senior Fellow at the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems and author of Fat of the Land: The Garbage of New York – The Last Two Hundred Years. Bob Gardener is Vice Director of the Landfill Management Division of the Solid Waste Association of North America and Senior Vice President with SCS Engineers based in Virginia.

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