In Brooklyn, near the beach at Brighton and southwest of John Fitzgerald Kennedy airport, housed in the XIX factories of fertilizers used as raw carcasses of horses and low quality fish.As the pestilence was unbearable to any visitor, and the 1,500 inhabitants of the area, dependent on fertilizers,gave them just a little more of stench, the Bay was used also as landfill. Millions of tons of waste were to accumulate on the beach. Until 1926, when, already closed fertilizer factories, it was decided to cover the mountains of waste with soil. The waste, mixed with coal and sand, also served to link the island of Barren with the rest of the Bay.

http://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2014/08/07/53e26eba22601d097f8b458a.html (new in spanish)

It would be amazing to try to clean it, even if it is just a bit. We are destroying the planet and complaining won't help anything, I can not do it, I am not in the country and I cannot travel, but is that The Dollars are all over the world.

I am sorry if it is not understood well, this isn't my language