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When people realised that landfills:

encourage vermin (rats),
emit methane gas (a dangerous greenhouse gas),
use up valuable land,
contain a lot of valuable items that could be recycled like glass, metals, aluminum and paper.

Then people realised that landfills were an important environmental issue.

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