The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Landfill sites have swallowed many a beauty spot along the Thames estuary in the past 50 years. Now, as those dumps start to disgorge tonnes of mouldering detritus into the river, it truly feels like the Age of Consequences. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:03.4	The rubbish capes of Essex,
1:05.5	why a buried trash is back to haunt us, by Tim Burrows.
1:15.1	In 1971, the Angling Times sent reporter Dave Nash to document a disaster in Ockenden Essex.
1:22.4	The resulting article describe the extinction of a local beauty spot.
1:26.8	Hundreds of hectares of open space where former gravel pits have become popular fishing lakes.
1:32.7	In less than a decade, what was one of the best fisheries in Essex has been
1:36.5	savagely raped and dispoiled.
1:38.9	700 tons of household garbage is deposited into the pits every day,
1:44.0	along with a similar undisclosed amount of industrial refuse.
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