The Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island was New York City’s primary landfill from 1948 to 2001. Thousands of tons of daily garbage created the largest man-made structure on Earth. The former landfill is now the site of Freshkills Park, a 30-year project to cover, reclaim, and slowly open this land to the public.
As part of THIRTEEN’s online series The City Concealed, producers Bijan Rezvani and Daniel Ross go behind the scenes to document the changes at the world’s most notorious garbage dump. Although these changes might be good for Staten Island and the environment around Fresh Kills, where does all that trash go? Watch the film now. Plus, producer Bijan Rezvani gives his take on what it was like to film atop of tons of garbage for the Inside Thirteen blog.
