MOBRO was inspired by the intriguing 1987 journey of a garbage barge of the same name that became a national news headline, sparking intense interest in, and action on, a multitude of environmental ...

Palatka, Fla. shipbuilder St. Johns Ship Building announced it has signed a contract to construct a pair of 80 x 54 x 12 spud barges for marine equipment company Mobro Marine, based in Green Cove ...

The first of our new Retro Report series revisits the 1987 voyage of a barge loaded with New York garbage. It became an international fiasco, but foreshadowed the modern recycling movement.

How did a simple barge become a symbol of rampant American consumerism and an omen of environmental disaster? That's the story of Mobro 4000, a garbage barge that logged 6,000 miles on the high seas ...

The tugboat Break of Dawn was one of hundreds of modest working vessels that plied the waters off the U.S. East Coast during the year 1987, and this was just another job: hauling a 230-foot-long ...

MOBRO is Ellis' and librettist/playwright Andy Bragen's seventy-five-minute through-composed piece, for nine musicians and four singers, which was commissioned and created at one of NYC finest jazz ...

I'm not a regular reader of the New York Times' business page, but on Friday this almost-worthy-of-Grist headline caught my eye: Waste Yes, Want Not. Some of you might remember the saga of the Mobro ...