What Stinks? The Mourners Wore Hazmat Suits
The coffin held the South Bronx. The mourners wore asthma inhalers and face masks. And the litany of complaints regarding the New York Organic Fertilizer Company was all too familiar: “the smell was unholy, the demands righteous.”
Neighbors of the New York Organic Fertilizer Company, on Oak Point Avenue in the Hunts Point section, held a candlelight vigil in front of the plant this afternoon. Sludge from the city sewer system is burned there and made into fertilizer pellets.
“The South Bronx is dying from the odor,” said Wilfredo Febre, a member of the environmental justice committee of Mothers on the Move.
The group’s demands, addressed to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Emily Lloyd, head of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, included imposing higher standards on the company and the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant, and reducing odors in the neighborhood.
“South Bronx residents are basically sick of the years of breathing that nauseating smell of the sewage,” said Mr. Febre, who lives a half-mile from the company and has to close the windows if the wind is from the south or southwest.
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