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Islip Garbage Barge 
Canedy, T 
2014 
Academic Press 
Oxford 
Encyclopedia of Toxicology (Third Edition) 
1111 
On 22 March 1987, a garbage barge known as the Mobro 4000 left Islip, New York, with 3168 tons of trash from New York State, headed toward North Carolina where the waste was to be turned to methane as part of a pilot program. Upon arrival in North Carolina waters, public outcry lead to the refusal of the waste, thus setting it off on a long journey which took the barge as far as Belize before eventually returning to New York. The public spectacle became a starting point for discussions on waste disposal, recycling, and environmental regulation. 
Garbage Barge; Mobro 4000; New York; North Carolina; Recycling; Solid waste; Waste disposal 
Wexler, Philip