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It looks like a river from a fairy tale. With its picturesque bridges, the

dreamer cuts through valleys and plains, countries and cultures forming the border

between Bosnia and Serbia. It is so unique that it's got this limestone

so it's emerald green colour, really dramatic mountains on either side, green lush,

beautiful. It was listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, but now the views of the river are changing.

Rubbish from three different countries is choking the dreamer.

I tell you, everybody put the garbage here. It smells terrible, I mean it can really smell it now.

What is it like to live next to a moving landfill site and what are locals doing to reverse the

damage? They're living in this beautiful place and it's just blightered.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manvina Rana. Today, sold down the river, the Bosnian bottleneck.

I just got back from Bosnia last week. It was one of my first trips in the pandemic era, so it was both

stressful and very liberating. I realised as I was getting the taxi to the airport in Istanbul,

it was the first time I'd left Istanbul since November and seeing kind of green around me was

the most amazing thing. That's Hannah Lucinda Smith who writes about Turkey and the Balkans for the

Times. She's been in Bosnia looking at a story that's ostensibly about rubbish, but what it reveals

is how a landscape already ravaged by war is now being blighted by the peace that followed.

A group of environmentalists in Bosnia have been really trying to raise the alarm about something

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