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In 1987, a barge loaded with three thousand tons of New York garbage set out for a landfill and couldn’t find anywhere to dump it — rejected by state after state and country after country, it wandered six thousand miles and was gone five months before slinking home with its cargo
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Its load was 3,186 tons of household rubbish, and it belonged to a private businessman with a scheme.
Mafia families controlled waste hauling in New York at the time, so that is where Harrelson went shopping for raw material.
A plan with no paperwork at the far endHarrelson set sail before anyone at the destination had signed anything.
The barge made for Morehead City in North Carolina, where the methane pilot was supposed to happen.
Anchored in Gravesend Bay, it drew flies and gawkers for the rest of the summer while agency after agency climbed aboard to test the cargo.