Local residents had used the site as a garbage dump, piling discarded debris around two old monuments.

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The neglected site may be situated next to a garbage dump or may be affected by bacteria from nearby sewage piping.

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Growing up in Jaipur, the trash dumps used to be plentiful, and there was a garbage dump right by his house.

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In the 1970s, Oaks Bottom was a garbage dump.

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Gehenna was the garbage dump outside ancient Jerusalem.

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Born in a garbage dump.

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At about 2 a.m. on Nov. 20, Mr. Longueuil left his New York apartment and walked around searching for garbage trucks where he could dump mangled pieces of external computer drives, according to a government complaint.

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Ignorance spawns scares, such as the fuss surrounding New York's infamous garbage barge, which in 1987 sailed the Atlantic for six months in search of a place to dump its load, giving many Americans the false impression that their country's landfills had run out of space.

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La Chureca rubbish dump on the outskirts of the city is home for hundreds of families, who somehow survive picking through the putrid garbage of their marginally more fortunate neighbours.

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