Fresh Kills Landfill

Fresh Kills Landfill, the largest landfill in the world (former), is located in Staten Island, New York. It is a total of 2200 acres where it opened in 1948 and lasted until March of 2001. The initial goal of the landfill was to remain open for five years, yet it was open longer, if not for a few decades. This landfill was one of the dominant landfills for storing garbage collected around New York City. Around 1986-1987, Fresh Kills landfill received approximately 29,000 tons of trash per day and

across the United Sates utilizes landfills to dispose of their waste. Fresh Kills Landfill opened in 1948 and was only intended to be a temporary landfill used for 20 years, however by 1955 it became the largest landfill in the world as it was turned into New York’s primary dumping ground for the second half of the 20th century. At the peak of operation Fresh Kills was receiving twenty barges carry 650 tons of waste each and every day. In March of 2001 Fresh Kills reached capacity and with the urging

The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation established the Brookhaven landfill in March 1974. Since then, residents have revealed many health concerns and other relative issues against the placement of the landfill. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has been addressed in regards to a necessary public health consultation to draw attention to these concerns. After further cooperative agreements amongst the New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH) and ATSDR

many, Fresh Kills conjures up images of the “World’s Largest Landfill” - bulldozers pushing mountains of trash, flocks of seagulls fighting over table scraps, and plastic bags fluttering in the wind. After the closure of the landfill, many hope that this image will be replaced by Fresh Kills as a public park. The international design competition, Fresh Kills: Landfill to Landscape was the first step in transforming this image. Six finalists suggested six different visions of how Fresh Kills could

of features including a World Trade Centre memorial, because the landfill was reopened in 2001 to hold the remains of the towers on a temporary basis, as well as a strong, central focus on habitat, programs, and circulation throughout the new park and improved park. Fresh Kills Park can be seen as contemporary version of Olmsted's massive original design for Manhattan Park as far as size, work load, and project purpose. Fresh Kills Park has said to be and is by my standard "one of the most ambitious

Pollution effects every ecosystem on the planet.You can look into any ecosystem and instantly see the effects of pollution. Humans are always harmed by pollution. Pollution can kill human and animals, contaminate water, and even kill large crops.Big factories so some of the worse polluting, the dismiss large amount of chemicals in the smoke, they then rise which will put wholes in the ozone layer. That can let the harmful radiation from the sun in the air we breath. Long term exposure to air pollution

revolutionized the way we look at rubbish. What was once an unsightly and wasteful disposal process has now become a source of clean energy. No longer do landfills have to vent toxic gases into the earth’s atmosphere thanks to scientist’s ability to convert methane gas in to power. This paper explores the ways in which the methane produced by trash can make landfills more environmentally friendly and provide clean energy to the world. The Waste Problem As industry has evolved, the creation and disposal of waste

which left unable, to part with their trash and trapped inside the there home. Today in America anywhere from 3 and 6 million people are thought to be hoarders. Most of us are not like the Gaston’s instead of hoarding in our homes we hoard in the landfills of America instead. The average American produces 7.1 pounds of trash per day just for there self. Across a lifetime each person has the ability to create 102 tons of trash in our

Not many people know that their trash ends up in a landfill or what it is doing to the environment. When trash ends up in a landfill it builds up in to a lager pile, starts to release toxic gases, and pollutes the ground it sits on. Most of the time the trash is burned to make more room for more trash. Landfills have a big effect on the environment. Landfills make gas composition. Is there a way to use LFG to our benefit? How many landfills are being used for their gases in the United States? Some

which drove away hundreds of thousands of tourists. This drastic loss of tourism and cost to clean the beaches hit New Jersey hard economically, losing about one billion dollars of their usual income. The problem was eventually traced back to “Fresh Kills Landfill” in Staten Island,