Cleaning up a horror ; Crews work to remove mountains of debris after terrorist attack.(World Trade Center attack)

Waste News, September, 2001 by Johnson, Jim

New York - Massive amounts of steel, concrete and other debris face cleanup crews in the wake of America's most deadly terrorism attack, which destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon last week. The trade center, with its twin towers once jutting 110 stories above lower Manhattan, took more than 200,000 tons of steel and 425,000 cubic yards of concrete to build in the early 1970s.

All that, along with the buildings' 600,000 square feet of glass, its contents and the collateral damage caused by the collapse, could take months to clean up after two hijacked jumbo jets crashed into the buildings Sept. 11. The resulting fires and pulverization of concrete covered lower Manhattan with a blanket of ash reported to be up to 6 to 12 inches...

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