What will our rubbish tell the excavators of tomorrow?
A curious paradox of garbage is that the person who discards it considers it worthless; yet for others, it can be a source of curiosity
25 April 2021 • 7:00pm
Painstakingly unearthing a layer of face masks, nitrous oxide cannisters and the compacted remains of failed sourdough loaves – whatever will they think of our 21st-century civilisation?
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On Staten Island, a new park is under construction. By 2035, when it is due to be completed, Freshkills Park will be the second largest green space in New York City. But the children yet unborn who will play there, their grandparents who will sit on its benches, the canoeists who will navigate its waterways and the hikers who will follow its paths may not know that beneath them lies the garbage of decades, dumped in what was once the world’s biggest landfill site.
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