Photo: WNYC.org
Remember Wall-e? He is a little robot that processes garbage into neat little cubes on a too toxic to inhabit planet earth. Ever turn off of Greenpoint Ave onto Humboldt and see inside into the garbage processing facility? There are human Wall-e’s climbing into giant piles of garbage and a few doors down there are giant rows of garbage cubes.
Near the Newtown Creek (aka Greenpoint) there are 19! waste transfer stations…