A massive illegal dumpsite was found hidden behind trees in Oxfordshire, England. Hundreds of feet long and 12 feet high, it looks like a river of trash. The sheer quantity of it creates a problem of national dimensions, and panic has already set in at the potential cost of dealing with it.

An environmental nonprofit quoted by the BBC claims that the dump was created by an organized crime group and that cleaning it up can't wait for the months- or years-long "usual reaction time" of the Environment Agency. The local authorities don't have the resources to do it.

It is hard to distinguish any particular bits of waste as it appears to have been shredded with earth mixed in.

Some of the rubbish from the top of the pile has toppled and is now only five metres from the river. … Local angler

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