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What To Know The river has often been a dumping ground for waste and garbage, and on Tuesday its waters appeared pink.
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Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
In Well’s new column, a therapist helps a reader who is sick of being her mother’s dumping ground.
—German Lopez, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The volume of secondhand clothing sent to Africa has led to complaints of the continent being used as a dumping ground.
—Francis Kokutse, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
The boys at Nickel speak plainly about the dumping ground for peers that go missing, called Boot Hill.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
In Well’s new column, a therapist helps a reader who is sick of being her mother’s dumping ground.
—German Lopez, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The volume of secondhand clothing sent to Africa has led to complaints of the continent being used as a dumping ground.
—Francis Kokutse, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
The boys at Nickel speak plainly about the dumping ground for peers that go missing, called Boot Hill.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Dumping ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dumping%20ground. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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