Incidentally, it also serves as the EU's dumping grounds for anything from toxic waste to shoddy or outmoded products.
But 10 million children under 12 still live within four miles of a toxic waste dump.
Some say that the taxpayer should pick up the tab for toxic waste and let polluters who can afford to fix it off the hook.
In the last four years, we cleaned up 250 toxic waste sites, as many as in the previous 12.
