A new Netflix series explores one of the biggest environmental scandals in U.K. history — one that left dozens of children with birth defects.

Before or after you watch, here are all the details you need to know about what happened and how it all ended.

A TV series based on the real life drama has been hailed as one of the best ever. Netflix's Toxic Town, which is based on the real life Corby toxic waste scandal, has received plenty of plaudits from viewers hailing it as a five-star must-watch show.

Toxic Town tells the true story of the Corby toxic waste scandal, which resulted in several women from the same town giving birth to children with birth defects and limb differences. Critics have been heaping praise on the four-part series,

Netflix's new drama Toxic Town revisits one of the UK's biggest environmental scandals: the Corby toxic waste case. The series tells the story of families fighting for justice after children in the Northamptonshire town were born with birth defects,

The drama has already shown a disregard for basic health and safety requirements in the work and clearly demonstrated how the local people were being exposed to toxic dust and ele