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3 - 9 August 2017
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Toxic trash protest
Wasted By Linda Hall Sixty per cent of Alicante Province’s rubbish is untreated and ends up buried in landfill sites. There are three plants in Campello, Jijona and Fontcalent as well as unauthorised tips in isolated locations where unwanted refuse is dumped. According to Carlos Arribas from Ecologistas en Accion, Alicante Province’s landfill sites, which handle hugely increased amounts of rubbish in the summer, were “ticking timebombs.” They posed a constant health threat owing to the fluids they leach and the emissions that pollute the water table, ground and the air, he claimed. What Arribas described as “gigantic silos of rubbish” are also responsible for methane emissions, whose greenhouse effect is 20 times more potent than car-
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DUMPED: Valuable materials could be recycled. bon dioxide, he said. “Many tips are inadequately controlled and responsible for introducing toxic elements into the environment.” It was no secret, he said, that living near one of the province’s
three landfill sites brought grave problems. The Fontcalent site’s neighbours regularly complained about the toxic smell, as did those in Campello, Arribas said.
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