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Article: Proposal to export garbage has New Yorkers talkin' trash. (Fresh Kills landfill)
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- Insight on the News
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- July 29, 1996
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Fresh Kills is one of the largest -- and most hazardous -- landfills on earth. Environmentalists want to shut it down, but New Yorkers wonder where in the world they will put their garbage.
It is a tale of superlatives. At 3,000 acres and 175 feet high -- as tall as the Statue of Liberty -- the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, N.Y., is the world's biggest pile of garbage. Public sanitation officials from across the United States and as far away as Tokyo tour the site, studying how to dispose of up to 16,000 tons of trash a day -- or how to avoid building their own Fresh Kills.
It is the biggest and perhaps most efficient dump on earth, but it also is one ...