What is Fresh Kills Landfill?
[[Image:Wpdms usgs photo fresh kills.jpg|right|250px|thumbnail|Location of the Fresh Kills Landfill.]] The '''Fresh Kills Landfill''' was a [[landfill]] located in [[Staten Island]], [[New York City]]. It was opened in 1947 as a temporary landfill. The area used to be a [[swamp]].<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Staten Island Landfill: Fresh Kills | publisher = | url = http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~scintech/solid/silandfill.html | doi = | accessdate = 2010-04-27 | archive-date = 2010-05-03 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100503103712/http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~scintech/solid/silandfill.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> It became New York City's main landfill in the second half of the 20th century. At one time, it was the largest man-made structure in the world.<ref name=autogenerated1>Lloyd, John; Mitchinson, John (2006-10-05). ''QI: The Book of General Ignorance''. Faber and Faber. {{ISBN|0-571-23368-6}}. Pages 114-115.</ref> It was closed in 2001. At the height of its service in the 1960s, the contents of 20 [[barge]]s, each having 650 tons of garbage, were added to the landfill every day.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> By 2001, the landfill was larger than the [[Statue of Liberty]].<ref name=autogenerated1 /> After the [[September 11 attacks]], the landfill was used to sort one third of the [[debris]] from the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] site. Around two million tons of debris from the site was taken to the landfill for sorting.<ref>{{cite web|title=Items from World Trade Center Recovery Operation, Fresh Kills Landfill|url=http://statenisland.pastperfect-online.com/00039cgi/mweb.exe?request=keyword;keyword=fresh%20kills%20recovery;dtypewanted=;dtype=d|work=Online Collections Database|publisher=Staten Island Historical Society}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Recovery: The World Trade Center Recovery Operation at Fresh Kills | publisher = The New York State Mu