article_snippet: Furious residents are calling for the closure of a controversial landfill site, which overflowed leaving the streets infested with rats and trees filled with rubbish.
article_snippet: People living Ryton, Winlaton and Greenside, in Tyne and Wear, picketed the site in Lead Road, Blaydon, calling for better measure to stop waste overflowing .
article_snippet: locals also launched a petition calling for better measures to stop rubbish from overflowing.
article_snippet: The operation of the landfill site has caused no end of nuisance and disturbance over recent years. '
article_snippet: My office and local councillors have been in almost constant dialogue with the Environment Agency and the council in an attempt to resolve the mismanagement of the landfill site by the operator. '
article_snippet: Local families, armed with placards, visited the landfill site to demand the landfill site operators to start running the landfill site responsibly.
article_snippet: These people need to wake up and start running the landfill site responsibly. '
article_snippet: I also want the authorities to be given greater powers over landfill site operators.'