Steel, concrete and mud from the Key Bridge salvage operation gets recycled and repurposed

Workers cut up the remanants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to prepare them to be recycled on April 12, 2024 a few weeks after the collapse. . The pieces are gathered from the water and taken to the port of Tradepoint Atlantic, which sits directly adjacen

Source: Kaitlin Newman / The Baltimore Banner

Sometime in August, dump trucks delivered the final load of Patapsco River mud, dredged from the sea bed during the cleanup of the Key Bridge collapse, to the Kinsley landfill in Deptford Township, New Jersey, about 15 miles outside Philadelphia.

The mud, which contained random debris that came up with it and had to be picked clean, was the last of the materials contractors disposed of after the remnants of the bridge were dismantled and removed. Four months after the steel truss bridge collapsed, portions of its footings remain, as do the stubs of roadway to the southwest and northeast.

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