Built on Trash: The Staten Island Landfill Is America’s Plastic Throne

The Staten Island landfill is the largest garbage dump in the United States—once receiving 15 million kilograms of trash every day. Today, it’s twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, a plastic mountain built from decades of consumerism, fast food wrappers, and broken infrastructure.

In this short dispatch, Hazel Sittingbear—flea market prophet and leader of the Garbage Kingdom—offers a grim, poetic reminder:
This isn’t just a landfill. It’s a monument to collapse.

🗑️ Most common item? Plastic bags.
🗽 Most ironic fact? It overshadows America’s symbol of freedom.

Watch. Reflect. And consider where the empire actually lives now.

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