NYC Garbage Sits Uncollected In Buffalo

Date: June 5, 2003

Source: News Room

Three hundred eighty-eight containers of garbage from the New York City area have been rotting in a Buffalo, New York, railyard since December. The city has sued the shipper, Chem-Rail, and Canadian Pacific Railway (Toronto: CP.TO) to get the trash removed from a rail yard she described as an island in a business and residential district. The trash containers were overloaded, so the trucks that carried them got stuck in the mud at the rail yard. But officials with Express Intermodal, which was unloading the containers, says the problem was that the shipper, Chem-Rail, ran out of money.
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