The Brookhaven Landfill Action & Remediation Group (BLARG) is a grassroots effort that is seeking to close and clean up the toxic Brookhaven Landfill (1974 - present).  BLARG was cofounded by several North Bellport community members including Hannah Thomas, Dennis Nix and Monique Fitzgerald with the help from community members, Abena Asare, Kerim Odekon, and Michelle Mendez from neighboring communities, Brookhaven Hamlet and Shirley/Mastic, respectively.

We acknowledge that the Brookhaven landfill and North Bellport and the aforementioned neighboring communities are all on unceded Unkechaug Nation ancestral land.  We started this group after the murder of George Floyd to acknowledge that George Floyd did not have to die and the only way to prevent premature death of black people is to identify what systemic issues are putting black lives most at risk.

Here in the Town of Brookhaven among many things the Brookhaven Landfill is a 270+ ft grave monument to environmental injustice that has harmed the community of North Bellport and surrounding neighborhoods for almost 50 years. As a grave monument to Long Island's history of systemic racism, the Brookhaven Landfill negatively affects our community's air quality, groundwater, health outcomes, economic future, education sector, and quality of life. At BLARG we urgently expose, interrupt and seek to rectify the harm of the Brookhaven Landfill. We advocate for effective clean up (remediation) that restores all that has been damaged. We seek reparations for the affected community.  We continue to seek community engagement, solutions and input on how this landfill has affected their lives and community health. We will not continue the cycle of environmental injustice by simply shipping the waste problem "somewhere else."  At BLARG, we fight for “zero waste solutions” that reduce, reuse, and re-conceptualize our waste in ways that allow us all to thrive!