We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
1600 old NY subway cars to be used for artificial reef
The claim is that the old cars will serve as artificial reefs for sea life while providing divers with an underwater glimpse of New York icons. One thing is clear: NYC Transit is saving millions of dollars by dumping them at sea. If transit otherwise scrapped them, removing asbestos from the old cars would cost an additional $27 million.