You just have to go 100 m to the end of the dirt road, out of sight, in the shadow of the buildings of the Husselle business park, to come across it.
Abandoned at the foot of a ruin and a grove of trees, near pretty allotment gardens, there are piled up carcasses of fridges, chipped toilets, oil cans, tires, sheets of asbestos...
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“Here is the barrel of the Danaids,” sighs Larbi Ait Yahia.
We're going to remove the trash today, and next week there will be just as much.
» In Greek mythology, the Danaids, daughters of King Danaos, are sent to the underworld to fill, in vain… a barrel with holes.
The deputy director of urban cleanliness in Reims (Marne) knows that his teams have the same feeling of waging an endless battle.
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