When she came into my life, we were fighting against a huge waste facility planned for the East River waterfront despite the fact that our small part of New York City already handled more than 40 percent of the entire city's commercial waste: a sewage treatment pelletizing plant, a sewage sludge plant, four power plants, the world's largest food-distribution center, as well as other industries that bring more than 60,000 diesel truck trips to the area each week.
Una planta de tratamiento de aguas residuales, otra de sedimentos de aguas residuales, cuatro plantas nucleares, el centro de distribución de alimentos más grande del mundo, y otras industrias que hacen circular a más de 60 000 camiones diésel cada semana.