Long Island produces more than 2.6 million tons of municipal solid waste annually – it is unfeasible and unfair to suggest that one facility in some other community should bear the burden of Long Island’s entire solid waste disposal problem. Each town will need to deal with their own waste issues as they face the imminent closure of Brookhaven Landfill. This facility will service Huntington and Smithtown and is only designed to handle the needs of these two townships, not the needs of additional Long Island towns.
The current Huntington-Smithtown Waste-to-Energy Incinerator operates close to or at capacity and no additional waste can be processed there, dispelling the myth that additional volumes of trash will come into our area via truck. There are six active or proposed train transport facilities on Long Island, all of which would provide local solutions to managing ash and debris.