Illegal landfills
Jan 29 2007, Kanchan

Athens, a city of four million people, produces 6,000 tons of trash daily. Since most garbage dump areas, that is land fills are brimming over, mountains of refuse have filled the streets in early January. A definite put down for a city famed for...

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