The New Bedford Board of Health voted 2-to-1 Tuesday night to deny approval for a controversial trash transfer facility in the city’s North End, effectively killing the project as proposed.

The board cited multiple environmental and health issues brought up during recent community hearings as reasons for denying the project approval. The decision comes nearly six years after South Coast Renewables, formerly known as Parallel Products, initially proposed the project in 2019.

“I am just ecstatic that finally this is over,” said Christine Kelley, a New Bedford resident and member of the advocacy group South Coast Neighbors United (SCNU). “We got the vote that we should have received.”

The facility would have sorted around 1,500 tons of solid waste per day, before sending it out for destruc

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