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Jim Taylor's Impact Speech |
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| But even with reducing use and recycling, we still have a waste management crisis in this country. For me, this means notching up another level. That is why I have started a new business, called Taylor Solutions, which combines recycling and renewable biomass energy. It’s the only thing I’ve seen that can give Taylor and New Yorkers control over our destiny and it will make us more sustainable to boot. I'd like to tell you about this process in some detail. First, let's look at what happens to your waste today. This map shows arrows representing how waste from Boston is being trucked to Rochester, sent by rail to Ohio, and by barge to South Carolina. New York state and New York City in particular are doing the same thing, shipping waste hundreds of miles to landfills, using rail to get to Virginia, and a lot of trucks to get from |
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| transfer stations in the Bronx, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Even with the rail transfer, New York City's 25,000 tons per day of waste means that on top of all the | regular garbage collection trucks,you have over 1,000 trucks per day on the roads and bridges, so we can send our garbage on vacation. | |