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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Leana Hosea

‘I kept smelling a horrible nasty smell’: the risks of England’s old dumping grounds

A landscape of solid waste interspersed with large puddles
The Jameson Road landfill site on the edge of Fleetwood, Lancashire, where now-banned ‘forever chemicals’ were legally dumped until 2014. Photograph: Jess Brown

“I just kept smelling this horrible, nasty smell … like animal excrement, and I was wondering what it was,” says Jess Brown, from Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Brown’s mother suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and she believes the smells make it worse. She also worries for her eight-year-old daughter, whose asthma worsens when the odour seeps indoors.

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