'Mountain of trash': how Gibraltar was almost buried under post-Brexit rubbish pile

As the island grappled with post-EU paperwork, 6,000 tonnes of waste were left with nowhere else to goSet against the lapping waters of the western Mediterranean, the mounds of half-chewed apples, takeout containers and dirty nappies began accumulating in January. Fed by a continuous convoy of trucks hauling rubbish from across Gibraltar, the pile of waste soon swelled to some 6,000 tonnes."It was a mountain of trash," said Antonio Munoz of the ecologist group Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción. "All sorts of rubbish, all mixed together." Continue reading...