Ignorance spawns scares, such as the fuss surrounding New York's infamous garbagebarge, which in 1987 sailed the Atlantic for six months in search of a place to dump its load, giving many Americans the false impression that their country's landfills had run out of space.
Who can forget the story of the garbagebarge sailing the coastline and waterways of the United States looking in vain for someone to take it, bury it or use it for landfill -- anything that would take it off the hands of a New York City overwhelmed by waste.