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VIDEO: Rio's famous rubbish dump to close

bbci.co.uk (11 months and 19 days ago)

Jun 2, 2012

Latin America's largest rubbish dump, the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro, is to close for environmental reasons - costing thousands of local people their jobs. full story

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