For instance, the nation's first garbage incinerator was built in the early 1880's on Governors Island.

Tod Crumrine has heard all the critics' charges that huge garbage incinerators add pollution to the ground water and the air.

The committee will also have a role in placing jails, shelters for the homeless and garbage incinerators throughout the city.

It was used as a garbage incinerator for 52 years burning about 50,000 tonnes per year.

Both also say they oppose building garbage incinerators.

The community also wants to build a garbage incinerator.

Officials are focusing on a number of potential solutions, including big garbage incinerators, which also generate steam for electricity, and recycling programs.

Then more news: a house fire, a yacht sinking in the bay, an environmental fracas over a new garbage incinerator.

It's an enormous job for ordinary citizens to stop a garbage incinerator planned in their area.

Landfills are difficult to site, and nobody wants a garbage incinerator.