""As Don says, after a time it is even safe to live on top of one, as my wealthy friends do in Broxbourne.""

Another half truth.

I also pointed out that our landfills are all in disused quarries or surface mine workings, in other words below ground level, allowing for a substantial depth of hardcore rubble and a heavy layer of soil.

How would you propose that anyone effectively cover a waste dump on the surface of an open hillside?

More likely it will be left to rot down and become truly toxic along with the disregarded humans forced to live right beside it.

The Bedouins are being used like a human buffer between the dump and the important citizens.

Don T.