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It's estimated that every inhabitant of the Brussels-Capital Region produces on average 1kg of waste a day.
Piles of rubbish bags on Brussels' streets should start to be cleared again from Tuesday, as collectors at Bruxelles Propreté have called off their industrial action.
Three dozen residents spent their Sunday afternoon picking up litter in the area around the Brussels canal, a part of Molenbeek known as the Maritime quarter.
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Police arrested two men on Friday who were caught tipping a tonne of construction waste in the Sonian Forest.
The area around the Porte de Namur metro stop in Ixelles has turned into something of one, big heap of trash.
Paint cans, ropes, beach towels, cables, bicycles, a “half a cow” and endless varieties of plastic bottles and jugs.
Can four cameras put a stop to illegal dumping of trash and other waste? Five municipalities on the outskirts of Brussels are about to find out.
Radioactive substances were detected in three bags of trash picked up by Bruxelles-Propreté last week.
