Take Fresh Kills in New York, for instance—a name that once evoked the image of seagulls circling over mountains of garbage. At over 2,200 acres, it was the largest landfill in the world ...

In New York City, a 15-year restoration project on a Staten Island landfill has found great success. The Fresh Kills landfill, which once contained decades worth of trash, was transformed into a ...

The people of Staten Island once had the dubious distinction of living with the Fresh Kills Landfill — home to what was once the world’s largest garbage dump and a reminder that we live in a ...