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Fresh Kills Landfill  

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  • Staten Island's Fresh Kills Landfill, which first began receiving New York City's trash in 1948 and officially closed in 2001, is the largest landfill in the world as of 2010 and, arguably, the largest human-made structure as well. Due to the awesome size of this mound and the equally daunting scope of the waste disposal problem confronting the world's most affluent industrial societies, Fresh Kills, in popular literature and environmental discourse alike, has become an imposing material reminder of the consumption and waste driving consumer culture and economy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Fresh Kills Landfill]

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