Article by Frederick Kaufman in Lapham’s Quartlery’s “City” edition
2008 / New York City
Waste Management
- TAGS:
- disease,
- garbage,
- journalism,
- New York,
- parasites,
- science
“The first regulations with respect to waste go back to the code of Hammurabi,” said Steve Askew, superintendent of New York’s North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, one of the world’s largest. “You have to bury your waste far from where you sleep.” And he gave me the look. Steve Askew never finished college, but that look had seen to the bottom of things. It was both spooky and intimidating, that particular look of pity and loathing the wise bestow upon the ignorant. He knew something I wanted to know: the ultimate fate of our waste.”
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