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‘We don’t have time for more promises’: the Croatian town that took on an illegal waste dump
After years of illegal mass flytipping in Gospić, fed-up residents decided to take matters into their own hands “Gospić is our home,” Željka Šikić shouted to a crowd of 40,000 people outside the Croatian parliament earlier this month. The slogan is the name of a campaign she helped to set up to protest against the illegal dumping of waste in Gospić, a town in the mountainous Lika region of central Croatia. Between…