Guest Op-Ed: We need to bring awareness to climate change
Climate change is a serious issue that adversely affects communities across the globe. We need to reduce greenhouse gases and other waste products that are seriously polluting our environment and hurting our quality of life.
It is imperative that we immediately begin to reduce, reuse and recycle our waste. For this reason, I have been fighting the city’s proposed marine waste transfer station on Gravesend Bay for nearly the past decade. This garbage station will adversely affect the environment and quality-of-life for all of southern Brooklyn.
The proposal is part of the city’s outdated management of trash. It is time to create a progressive plan for managing our trash. Recycling and reusing our waste is the answer. Marine waste transfer stations are not.