Bensonhurst trash plant foes find new allies
Opponents of the city’s plan to build a trash processing plant in Bensonhurst have found new allies from another part of town to work with to try and stop the controversial project from moving forward.
Members of the Sandy Task Force Recovery Organized by Neighborhood Groups (STRONG), a group founded by Councilman Mark Treyger (D-Coney Island-Gravesend-Bensonhurst), have joined forces with Pledge2Protect, an organization fighting to prevent a trash plant from being built on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Both groups are waging an 11th hour effort to keep the two trash stations from being constructed. But it’s unclear how much success they will have. The Bensonhurst plant, the Southwest Brooklyn Marine Transfer Station, has already been given the go-ahead by the city. In 2012, the city won the approval of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to move forward with the project.