Throughout the hearing some in the auditorium shouted, “Just say no,” prompting the hearing official in charge of the New Bedford Board of Health meeting, Art Krieger, to warn the crowd to quiet down several times.

The crowd was there to hear discussion on a proposal by South Coast Renewables to build a new facility that would handle and sort around 1,500 tons of solid waste per day, before it’s sent out for destruction or recycling elsewhere.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection gave its approval to the trash transfer station in July. Throughout August, the city Board of Health hosted a series of public hearings at Casimir Pulaski Elementary School to get public comment and to discuss the potential health and environmental impacts of such a facility.

At Tuesday’s he

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