From 1907 to 1991, Procter & Gamble had a factory on Staten Island that was once home to thousands of good paying, blue collar jobs. Then, Procter & Gamble closed the door on its Port Ivory factory after 84 years of operation. Port Ivory employed roughly 1,500 people through the 1960s, when it seemed that nearly everyone on Staten Island either worked at the plant or knew someone who did. In 2002, the last remaining symbols of the plant, its smokestack and power plant, were knocked down to make way for the expansion of Howland Hook, and the site has remained vacant. While the P&G site is being wasted, this should not tempt the Port Authority of NY/NJ to utilize it as a trash facility.

Any efforts to bring, transport, hold, or process garbage at this once vibrant economic engine will be seen as both a "smack in the face" to Staten Islanders and an environmental assault on the Mariners Harbor community. Bringing trash to an area already suffering with high asthma rates, zero transportation options, a lack of open space and minimal good paying jobs will impact the borough forever.