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Article: New York's shipping of garbage across state lines has other states steamed.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- May 15, 1997
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. _ Fresh Kills landfill is a steamy, smelly mound of garbage that erupts from wetlands on Staten Island like a trash heap for a thousand Goliaths.
All of New York City's residential garbage _ more than 13,000 tons a day _ is taken to this 2,200-acre dump, which is bigger than three Central Parks or 265 Yankee Stadiums. Environmentalists say 6 percent of the country's methane gas originates from the decaying waste. As many as 53,000 sea gulls drop by for meals each day.
Soon, this trash will be somebody else's problem.
Fresh Kills could stay open another 25 years, but intense pressure from residents and local ...