Of course this could happen – but those cemeteries spilling into the sea took the limelight:
To the already very long list of problems caused by global warming, add toxic waste in old landfills exposed by coastal erosion and polluting beaches and seas.
“There is not lots of toxic waste spilling out at the moment, but there will be in the future,” says Andrew Russell at Queen Mary University of London. [“Toxic waste is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode landfills,” Michael Le Page, NewScientist (24 May 2025, paywall)]
Glug.
In Britain alone, the team has now identified more than 1000 old landfill sites at risk of eroding, Russell told a recent meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria.
I doubt litigation will help with this. Another item for the long list of things to cleanup.
