From the Mobro Barge to the Carleton Farms Caravan, Recycling Reaches for the Brass Ring

By now, whether you’re 21 or 64 years old, on the cusp of or in the prime of your life, the saga of the Mobro Garbage Barge, almost 30 years ago, is as embedded in our psyche as the story of Adam and Eve, or, depending upon your bent, Noah’s Ark. You remember the tale. In response to the 112-day, 5,000-mile Flying Dutchman-like journey it took for Long Island’s trash to find a final resting place (back home in Brooklyn), the number of curbside recycling programs ramped up fro