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Belgium creates rubbish highway for flood debris

In eastern Belgium, an abandoned highway is covered by kilometres of rubbish. The makeshift dump -- comprising 90,000 tonnes of domestic debris stretching a total eight kilometres in both directions of the closed A601 motorway north of the city of Liege -- is testament to the devastation wreaked by unprecedented floods in mid-July.

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