These were placed inside a residential waste disposal unit and covered with sheets.

Sita's services include business and residential waste disposal, street cleansing, landfill engineering, civic amenity site management and energy from waste.

Although the long-term plan for the city's residential waste disposal calls for garbage to again travel by barge - from a system of transfer stations to a terminal in Linden, N.J., where it is to be repackaged for shipment by rail - that system is not expected to be in operation for four years or more.