Chartered by entrepreneur Lowell Harrelson and Long Island mob boss Salvatore Avellino, it set sail on March 22 from Islip, New York, [3] escorted by the tugboat Break of Dawn and carrying 3,168 tons (2,874 tonnes) of trash headed for a pilot program in Morehead City, North Carolina, to be turned into methane.

Oct 1, 2024 · Enter the Mobro 4000, a 240-foot barge loaded with 3,168 tons of trash from Islip, Long Island, and New York City. The plan was simple: float the barge down to Morehead City, North Carolina, where the trash could be converted into methane.

May 1, 2019 · Howell and his New York partners (some with links to the Lucchese crime family) devised a plan to load a barge with 3,168 tons of New York City and Long Island trash from the Islip landfill and bring it to North Carolina.

Jan 1, 2010 · In 1987 people in the town of Islip, NY had 3,168 tons of garbage that they wanted to get rid of. The genius idea that was carried out was to pile all of that smelly trash on a garbage barge and take it down to North Carolina to dump there.

Nov 7, 2010 · On March 22, 1987, “it started when the Long Island town of Islip, overcome by its own refuse, shipped 3,168 tons of it down the Atlantic coast, with a plan to dump it in some farmers’ backyards.

May 6, 2013 · On March 22, 1987, the tugboat Break of Dawn, towing the barge Mobro 4000, loaded with 3,168 tons of trash, set sail from Islip, New York, bound for Morehead City, North Carolina. The plan was to convert the trash to methane in a pilot recycling program.

On 22 March 1987, a garbage barge known as the Mobro 4000 left Islip, New York, with 3168 tons of trash from New York State, headed toward North Carolina where the waste was to be turned to methane as part of a pilot program.

Mar 21, 2020 · In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the east coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo

May 4, 1987 · In the Gulf of Mexico last week the real-life vessel Mobro 4,000 seemed as damned as the Dutchman as it searched in vain for a friendly harbor. Southern ports had good reason …

Mar 2, 2010 · This is the true story of what happened in 1987 when the town of Islip had 3,168 tons of garbage that they had no room for. So it was placed on a barge to be taken to North Carolina. Captain Duffy St. Pierre used his small tugboat to pull the barge down to North Carolina, but it wasn’t that simple.