What’s the biggest manmade structure? You might be thinking the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, or One World Trade Center. What do we mean by biggest? Even the term ‘man-made structure’ is problematic. What if we really weren’t planning to make something, does that count? If that’s the case, then the answer might just be Fresh Kills, a garbage dump on Staten Island. The site is 4.6 square miles in area and, when operational, had twenty barges carrying 650 tons of rubbish shipped into it daily. At its peak, the dump was more than 80 feet higher than the...
What’s the biggest manmade structure? You might be thinking the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, or One World Trade Center. What do we mean by biggest? Even the term ‘man-made structure’ is problematic. What if we really weren’t planning to make something, does that count? If that’s the case, then the answer might just be Fresh Kills, a garbage dump on Staten Island. The site is 4.6 square miles in area and, when operational, had twenty barges carrying 650 tons of rubbish shipped into it daily. At its peak, the dump was more than 80 feet higher than the...