A new marine transfer station is opening next week in Brooklyn, a milestone for a long-delayed plan. NY1's Courtney Gross got an exclusive look inside and filed this report.

It's an elaborate production to take care of your trash. 

Come Tuesday, garbage trucks will climb a ramp and dump tons of trash inside the Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station.

NY1 got an exclusive first look at how it will all work.

"This is the processing floor," said Sean Brereton of the Department of Sanitation. "This is where the trucks would dump their garbage and the front-end loaders would sweep in and put it in the slots right down there."

To get here, it's been a long haul. 

There are just four of these stations slated for the whole city. Only one is officially open. Hamilton Avenue will be the second.

They were all supposed to be open by 2010.

"There are a couple of factors that delayed the opening of many of the transfer stations," said Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia. "One of which was, we did get sued pretty often for many of them. And there were some construction delays."

These stations are supposed to make sure every community takes care of its own trash, not truck it off to other neighborhoods. But when they were proposed, some communities protested. 

They are now all moving forward now, albeit slowly. But it's still a political hot potato.

"I am not a big fan of the 91st Street transfer station," said Democratic mayoral candidate Sal Albanese. "It's not even up yet, but I would like to shut it down."

On Hamilton Avenue, equipment is loaded and ready for next week's opening. 

Trash will be put into containers and sent outside. Cranes lift the massive containers and put them on barges. They are then shipped across the harbor to New Jersey. From there, a train will take it to one of two landfills, upstate or in Virginia. 

Something like 1,600 to 1,800 tons of trash will leave here on a daily basis and head to New Jersey.

Similar processes will happen when the final two transfer stations open. The city says they hope that will happen next year.