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Fresh Kills Landfill: New York City s Wasteland

Race, Poverty and the EnvironmentRaquel Rivera PinderhughesUrban Studies ProgramSan Francisco State UniversitySpring 2004The public has permission to use the material herein, but only if author, course, university, and professor are credited.. . Fresh Kills Landfill: New York City's Wasteland

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Fresh Kills Landfill: New York City s Wasteland

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    1. Fresh Kills Landfill: New York City’s Wasteland Stephanie Brown

    2. Race, Poverty and the Environment Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes Urban Studies Program San Francisco State University Spring 2004 The public has permission to use the material herein, but only if author, course, university, and professor are credited.

    3. Introduction This presentation will focus on the environmental, social and public health impacts of Fresh Kills Landfill. We will begin with a timeline of American waste disposal leading up to the introduction of landfills such as Fresh Kills. We will then examine the statistics of the American waste stream. We will then cover the location of the Fresh Kills Landfill, Staten Island, New York. Next, we will move on to an analysis of the environmental and public health impacts of the landfill on both Staten Island and its residents due to chemicals released into the groundwater, soil, and air. Finally, we will analyze the social impacts incurred by the residents of Staten Island as a result of the Fresh Kills Landfill and the movement that resulted in its closure in 2001.

    4. How We Arrived Where We Are Today: A Timeline of American Waste Disposal

    5. 1657 New Amsterdam (now Manhattan) passes a law against casting waste in the streets

    6. 19th c. Visitors describe New York City as a "nasal disaster, where some streets smell like bad eggs dissolved in ammonia."

    7. Timeline continuedTimeline continued

    8. Timeline continuedTimeline continued

    12. A Product of Our Society: The American Waste Stream Examined

    13. The Waste Stream Examined

    14. The Waste Stream Examined: Garbage By The Numbers

    16. MSW Composition

    17. 2000 EPA Estimates of United States MSW Generation

    18. 2000 EPA Estimates of Increase in MSW Generation

    19. 2000 EPA Estimates on Amount of MSW Incinerated or Landfilled

    20. What is a Landfill?

    21. How Do Landfills Work?

    22. What Type of Landfill is Fresh Kills?

    23. What Does a Landfill Look Like?

    24. Questions on Solid Waste, Answered by the EPA

    25. 2000 EPA Estimates of Landfill Volume

    26. Fresh Kills: Outdated, Overflowing, and Dangerous

    27. The Location

    28. Staten Island

    29. The landfill is located within yards of residential, commercial and industrial areas of Staten Island. Staten Island… continued

    30. Staten Island Demographics

    31. A “Temporary Landfill”

    32. From its location on Staten Island, only a short barge ride from New York City, Fresh Kills was an extremely convenient waste disposal alternative for the city.

    33. Fresh Kills is Located Only Yards from Residential Neighborhoods

    34. The Reality of Fresh Kills

    35. A Community Reacts: Neighbors of Fresh Kills

    40. Should These Chemicals Cause Concern?

    41. These Chemicals Should Cause Concern

    43. Chemicals Reach Neighbors of Fresh Kills

    44. Landfills Are Dangerous

    45. Landfills Are Dangerous

    47. Fresh Kills Pollutes Water

    48. Fresh Kills Pollutes Water

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