[Levin]

1 hour ago
Author Saumya Roy reports from the country's oldest and tallest mountain of rubbish - some 18 storeys high - in the western coastal city of Mumbai.


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More than 16 million tonnes of trash make up Deonar's rubbish mountains - eight of them spread over a 300-acre sprawl - that are said to be India's largest and oldest. Waste is piled as high as 120ft (36.5m).

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The decomposing waste releases noxious gases such as methane, hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide. In 2016, it erupted in fires that burned for months and caused smoke in much of Mumbai.

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A 2020 study by a Delhi-based think tank, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), found 3,159 such mountains containing 800 million tonnes of rubbish across India.

In Mumbai, a court case has been going on for 26 years to close down the Deonar grounds but the dumping of waste continues.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58866834

[SotongOngTee]

They are lucky.......can tide over the coal shortage.

[Tangsen]

Now you know why I call them shiteland