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What is the largest man-made monolithic structure on Earth?

Incorrect answers: Cheops Pyramid, the Great Wall of China and (in the case of special smarties) the Mubarak al-Kabir tower in Kuwait. Our answer: Fresh Kills, a landfill on Staten Island in New York. Although we are madly in love with Jimmy Carr's alternative Holland.

Opened in 1948, the Fresh Kills (from the Dutch kil, "river") landfill for domestic and commercial waste eventually became one of the largest projects in world history and eventually surpassed (in terms of volume) the Great Wall of China, becoming the largest human creation. hands

The territory of the object is 12 km². When the landfill was still in operation, twenty barges were unloaded there every day, each carrying up to 650 tons of garbage. If Fresh Kills had remained open as planned, it would have grown to such a size that it would have become the highest point on the East Coast of the United States. Its top already towered over the Statue of Liberty by as much as 25 m.

Under pressure from the local population in March 2001, the authorities were forced to close the Fresh Kills, but soon the work of the landfill was resumed in order to receive the wreckage of the destroyed twin towers of the World Trade Center.

As of today, activity at Fresh Kills has been completely shut down, and the introduction of new restrictions means that it will never be able to resume (the creation of landfills within the city limits of New York is officially prohibited). Currently, work is underway to level the site and improve it in order to convert it into a nature reserve and a park zone. M-yes, very nice.

Of course, one can argue that there are structures that take up much more space than Fresh Kills. For example, the US road network? Internet? Or a GPS satellite network? And yet New York's Fresh Kills is still the largest man-made structure on Earth, forming a cohesive whole.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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