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24 March 2021 / CBC
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Garbage in the water: How old landfills are harming Inuit communities; marine food chains

Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada

The landfill in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, is overfull, but the hamlet can’t open a new landfill until it can pay to decommission the old one, says hamlet Mayor Harry Towtongie. A new environmental report says bad dumps are a problem in all of Canada's Inuit regions.


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