Pollution from a nearby landfill is damaging their health, say locals.
- Vlad Odobescu
- Deutsche Welle
Beside the airport on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca, one of Romania’s fastest growing cities, lies an enormous landfill site.
As you fly in, it’s easy to miss the multicolored roofs scattered between rolling green turf and mounds of waste.
But at ground level, the area is teeming with life. Horse-drawn carts cross paths with empty garbage trucks returning to the city.
Barefoot children run between makeshift wooden houses, and…