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  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  For a story I proposed on trash to National Geographic, I decided to ride a garbage barge as it motored past Gotham. Getting the pile of trash with the city in the background would be a powerful juxtaposition.  Having finished the shoot and waiting to get out of the stinking barge to the dump, I began strolling down the rows of barges back to the pilot house when I noticed the plastic American flag banner just as we were drifting by the Statue of Liberty.   I quickly climbed onto the revolting refuse and snapped about 10 pictures before we sailed out of range. Inspecting the film, I later noticed that there were quite a few other objects in the trash with the banner, including the infamous, kitchen sink.  After this shot was taken, barges had to be covered with giant nets so trash wouldn’t blow into the rivers and bay.  Freshkills Landfull was declared full in 2001 and later reopened in 2002 to discard the Trade Towers.
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  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  For a story I proposed on trash to National Geographic, I decided to ride a garbage barge as it motored past Gotham. Getting the pile of trash with the city in the background would be a powerful juxtaposition.  Having finished the shoot and waiting to get out of the stinking barge to the dump, I began strolling down the rows of barges back to the pilot house when I noticed the plastic American flag banner just as we were drifting by the Statue of Liberty.   I quickly climbed onto the revolting refuse and snapped about 10 pictures before we sailed out of range. Inspecting the film, I later noticed that there were quite a few other objects in the trash with the banner, including the infamous, kitchen sink.  After this shot was taken, barges had to be covered with giant nets so trash wouldn’t blow into the rivers and bay.  Freshkills Landfull was declared full in 2001 and later reopened in 2002 to discard the Trade Towers.
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  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.  10/89
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  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.  10/89
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  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.
    Rathje William 0005.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.
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  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.  10/89
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  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.
    Rathje William 0005-2.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  <br />
Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
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  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
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  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
    American Trash 0007.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
    American Trash 0003.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
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  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
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  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
    American Trash 0004.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
    American Trash 0001.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
    scf4327-901_American Trash 0003.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
    fct4384-101_American Trash 0007.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
    American Trash 0005.jpg
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  • William L. Rathje, professor of Archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know a person is by what they throw away, he says.
    Rathje William 0002-2.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.
    Rathje William 0007-2.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of Archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know a person is by what they throw away, he says.
    Rathje William 0002.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of Archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know a person is by what they throw away, he says.
    Rathje William 0001.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of Archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know a person is by what they throw away, he says.
    Rathje William 0001-2.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.
    scf4327-612rathje william 0007.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of Archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know a person is by what they throw away, he says.
    scf4327-609rathje william 0002.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know who a people are is by what they throw away he says.
    Rathje William 0007.jpg
  • William L. Rathje, professor of Archeology at the University of Arizona studies garbage as insight into human behavior.  The only way to know a person is by what they throw away, he says.
    scf4327-608rathje william 0001.jpg
  • Athena is barged down a canal past fields of flowers to Amsterdam to get her masts stepped and rigging tuned.  The barge was specially made in China for this leg of her journey.
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