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Fun facts about the MTAs trash
Photo credit: Urbanite
(Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
In honor of the ongoing hoopla about Earth Day, New York City Transit issued an extensive list of what it recycles each year:
- Nearly 8,500 tons of refuse, or about half of the trash collected from the system’s 468 subway stations
- More than 69,000 tons of metal, glass, plastic and paper amassed at train yards and other NYC Transit facilities
- Nearly 1,790 old subway cars have been sunk off the coasts of six states along the Atlantic seaboard to form habitats for marine life
- The amount of recycled refuse was 71 percent last year, compared to 54 percent in 2003
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