Where did all the steel from the Twin Towers go?

It is estimated that some 200,000 tons of steel collapsed into the ground when the twin towers collapsed. According to an article in the journal Places, by spring of 2002 most of the structural steel had been transported to New Jersey. New York City sold about 175,000 tons of the scrap.



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