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Originally Posted by Wildwood

I'm amazed this programme got the go-ahead what with all the health and safety regulations that there are these days.

It didn't. They had to build a clean, tidy, sanitary pretend landfill site just for the series.

Their encampment sits in a landscape of specially constructed rubbish-hillocks, intersected by winding pathways, like the set of Teletubbies, but with garbage instead of grass. In fact, this is carefully chosen rubbish, representing a typical selection of British waste, but without the used nappies and putrefying food to be found on the real landfill near by. It also handily includes things like an old box of carpenter’s tools, plumbing pipes with snap-lock joints and a useful selection of dining chairs. - from Top of the tips - Times Online

Dave P.