Why isn’t the City moving the World Trade Center materials, as some family groups have requested?
The City evaluated numerous complex issues and varying perspectives in its consideration of the proposal to remove World Trade Center (WTC) materials from Fresh Kills. These included a review of the exhaustive recovery efforts previously undertaken, the logistics of removal, and the capacity to identify an alternative receiving site. The City listened to and considered proposals from members of the WTC Families for Proper Burial and differing views of other families who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001. Given this information, the City has determined that it would be best not to disturb the materials from the World Trade Center remaining at Fresh Kills. During the 10–month recovery effort rescue workers carefully screened and sifted the 1.2 million tons of material that came from the WTC site to Fresh Kills. The search effort did not end until all discernable remains and effects were removed and taken to the New York City Medical Examiner’s office for identification and safekeepin
