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China’s rubbish idea to tackle smell

Beijing is waging war against the stench of its growing rubbish tips, deploying more than 100 cannon to blast deodorants into the capital’s landfills as warmer weather causes more waste to rot, according to The Telegraph.

The deodorant cannon were invented by employees at the Gao’antun Garbage Landfill Plant, in Beijing’s suburbs, after local officials were forced to apologise for the foul smells coming from the dump.

Other devices, such as odour-eating sheets were also brought in, along with a machine that extracts the foul-smelling gases and uses them to generate electricity

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