It's a frustration for people to be made conscious of how they handle trash in their household.

There has been a revolution in handling trash in this society and in New York nobody wants to acknowledge it or invest in the future.

If the Department of Sanitation approves, Atlas will become the first private company in Manhattan to handle ordinary trash.

"We're asking questions about the idea of adopting a single-method management approach to handling trash," Dr. Denison said.

We agree that the burden of handling trash should be equitably distributed.

The city says they are spoken for, respectively handling recycling and commercial trash.

Sanitation officials, pressured to find new ways to handle trash, are hoping to turn most residents into converts like Mrs. Cameron.

Although local officials and residents could not prevent construction of the station, they are now demanding that it never handle trash from other boroughs.

"I don't know how the customers would like it if they knew I am handling chemicals and trash, and the next minute serving them coffee," she added.

As important, it would make each borough share the burden of handling trash by accepting an assigned number of transfer stations.