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‘It’s a poison and it’s killing us’: the hidden dangers of old UK landfills
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With thousands of sites possibly leaking toxic chemicals, some people have already faced years of misery
Old landfills are often described as ticking timebombs, but some have already detonated.
In the 1960s, a landfill at Brofiscin quarry in Groesfaen, south Wales – one of a group of old landfills known to contain cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) – ruptured, causing a farmer’s cattle to fall ill and calves to be born with serious deformities.
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