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Article: Eighth wonder. (Fresh Kills landfill, Staten Island NY) (Eye on the '90s)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 19, 1990
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Eighth wonder * It seems a fitting monument to our throwaway society. By the end of next year, outside magazine reports, the Fresh Kills landfill will overtake the Great Wall of China as the world's largest man-made object. Located on New York's Staten Island, the landfill's colossal piles of trash are ...
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... ... what used to be the World Trade Center. But for hundreds of workers who spent the last 10 months at the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, the horrors have been the same. More than 1.8 million tons of debris was brought from Ground Zero ...
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