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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

More than 100 landfills in England may be leaching ‘highly hazardous’ waste

Earth mover on a landfill site
Laws requiring full records to be kept of the materials sent to landfill were only introduced in the 1990s. Photograph: Britstock Images Ltd/Alamy

More than 100 old landfills in England that may be contaminated with toxic substances have flooded since 2000, potentially posing a serious safety risk, it can be revealed.

Some of these former dumps containing possibly hazardous materials sit directly next to public parks and housing estates with hundreds of households, the analysis by the Greenpeace-funded journalism website Unearthed , in partnership with the Guardian, found.

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