In 1987, a barge carrying more than 3,000 tons of garbage from New York took over the news as it floated around the Atlantic seaboard looking for a place to offload. No one wanted it. The Mobro 4000 was originally intended to take its cargo to Louisiana for burial, then to Morehead City, North Carolina, to be converted to methane, then plans were hatched to take it to Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, New Jersey, the Bahamas, Mexico, and Belize, but the garbage was rejected everywhere. The boat stayed afloat and loaded for months.
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What was the problem? Well, there were mob ties to the garbage transportation operation. There were also questions about the safety of the exact type of waste it carried, as it was rumored to contain medical waste. But it mainly boiled down to “we don’t want your garbage.” Read about the Mobro 4000 and what eventually happened to it at Amusing Planet.
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