Behind a residential area stretches a mound of greenery.
“It’s a former gypsum quarry which was reforested in 2005,” comments Mireille Lopez, president of the environmental defense association of Claye-Souilly and its surroundings (Adenca), before becoming more somber: “ This is where they want to expand the toxic waste dump!
What's the point of planting these 53,000 trees if you're going to tear them up already?
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While the file is only in its early stages, environmental associations are alarmed by the project to extend the hazardous waste landfill classified Seveso high threshold, currently straddling Courtry and Villeparisis, in the neighboring town of Le Pine, in Seine-et-Marne.
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