Britain’s ‘fridge mountains’ nightmare revealed: Filled with toxic gases and oils, how mounting piles of our abandoned appliances are overwhelming our councils… and no one knows what to do with them

How many pints of milk and cans of beer once sat in all this? How much cheese and yoghurt lived to fight another day thanks to this forgotten army?

Once the gleaming guardians of food hygiene in umpteen kitchens, these mouldy old fridges are now a threat both to health and the environment.

And I am looking at a staggering 80,000 of them, piled several storeys high and stretching into the distance. It’s Mount Chillymanjaro here in Newport, Gwent.

Thick steel gates, locked firmly shut, carry signs warning that the huge white sprawl inside this yard is actually hazardous waste. That is because

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