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One random postcode and a story you probably haven鈥檛 heard before.

In the first of three new postcodes, producer Polly Weston is sent to BB2 3 - a residential postcode in the middle of Blackburn, separated from the centre of town by the Leeds Liverpool canal.

There鈥檚 a very obvious landmark as soon as she arrives. Thousands of tonnes of plastic waste are piled into peaks behind a wall alongside the canal. How did the plastic peaks of Blackburn get here?

The story of the former V10 Polymers site is a tale of the plastic recycling industry, of environmental crime, and of politics.

With the help of a lot of furious residents, and a man everyone calls Rasher (鈥渂ecause I used to work in a bacon factory鈥�), Polly tries to understand what on earth happened here. It鈥檚 been seven years of noxious fires, of fly tipping and rats. Seven years of planning meetings, council meetings, and disappointment. But is everything about to change?

Produced and presented in Bristol by Polly Weston