Trash Island: The mountain of plastic blighting the Balkans

Published: June 2, 2021, 3 a.m.

In the middle of one of the world's most beautiful rivers, the Drina, there now floats an island of rubbish – with no one taking responsibility. How did a landscape already ravaged by war become blighted by the peace that followed?


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Guest: Hannah Lucinda Smith, correspondent for The Times covering Turkey and the Balkans.


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